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Public space in the news today
• The Feds have tabled a law that specifies street racing as a crime. • The Howard Moscoe saga continues: Moscoe came under fire at council...
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Street furniture gone wild
Today at Toronto’s City Hall, city councillors will finish their debate about the possible street furniture contract the City wishes to tender in...
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Improv Everywhere
There’s a great improv group out of New York called Improv Everywhere who do clever public interventions. They are ususally elaborate and involve...
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Headlines worth following
Here are a few headlines worth following today, and I’d love to hear your comments about: The City of Toronto Act: the new law passed yesterday at...
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Pics of the new Opera House
Spacing was able to get a sneak peak at the new Opera House that is nearing completion at the corner of Queen St. West and University. We sent our man...
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New iPod skin design: Tokyo subway map
More ideas for potential TTC merchandise: iPod skin of the subway system. Over at GelaSkins, you can buy an ultra-thin, high-grade vinyl skin of the Tokyo...
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Final City Idol tonight
Toronto & East York Final Event! Six candidates will try their best. Only one will become a City Idol! The winner will run for City Council in the...
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SPACING: Beware the Ides of Merch?
One of Spacing’s on-going beefs with the TTC is how poor of a job it does of marketing itself. Once and a while they will do something that we may...
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Pressure from West-end Waterfront residents working on Watson
In April, the Spacing Wire reported on a plan to turn some waterfront parkland near the newly renovated Palais Royale into a parking lot. The Parkdale...
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Spacing wins National Magazine Award
Spacing is excited to share some good news: on Friday evening, the magazine captured a gold medal in Best Editorial Package at the 2005 Canadian National...
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Green the ‘burbs
Hume in the Star today (click here for full article): So far, builders, especially suburban builders, have blithely ignored the consequence of what they...
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Inner City Outtripping
Spacing Editor Dale Duncan has written in Eye about a program in Toronto that takes inner-city youth on camping trips within the city itself, using areas...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered