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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...
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Pigeon Condo Talks
This is last minute, for today’s talk, but we’ll pretend everybody is reading this on a Blackberry or Palm Treo while moving around the city...
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Pedestrian Picnics
Ordinarily, you’d think one of the last places to have a picnic would be a gas station. Not so for the organizers of Streets are for Picnics! On...
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King-Spadina Area Plan Review
Last night, I attended a very interesting presentation/workshop about a review of the city’s “secondary plan” (the detailed urban...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered