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This is horse shit!
In late February, when the much beloved police horse Brigadier was killed by a hit-and-run driver, I posted a bit of rant about my feelings towards cops...
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Who You Gonna Call? Part 2
The City of Toronto website is full of useful but hard-to-find information. As a follow-up to the sidewalk-obstacle-busting phone numbers I provided in an...
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Sad day for Toronto
Another bit of Toronto Modern has come down, quickly, before the required permits could be issued to save it. The Inn on the Park rose above Eglinton and...
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SPACING FICTION: “23 Bay, 23 Bay, 23 Bay…” by Jim Munroe
Spacing has a number of articles from our public transit issue that we saved to publish exclusively on Spacing.ca. Last week we posted Robin Rix’s...
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Greening our cities
Fred Kent, director of Project for Public Spaces out of New York, has a great column on how Placemaking can reinvigorate the environmental movement. The...
By Matthew Blackett -
Weekend round-up of links
Murray Whyte of the Star write about orphan spaces: “They are the unloved, invisible and, chances are, right outside your door — dozens of...
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The suburban urban forest
In Sunday’s Toronto Star, Kenneth Kidd has a great piece about the urban forest in suburbia: …The houses duly go up, some of that topsoil gets...
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Cleveland and Whitehorse bike racks
Since Toronto is about to embark on a massive street furniture project, we should to take a look at other cities for inspiration. The top image is a bike...
By Matthew Blackett -
Pedestrian Crossover Review
I told someone recently that I had been at a meeting dealing with a review of pedestrian crossovers, and they got that glazed look in their eyes. But once...
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Lucky Quebec
Cross-posted from the Eye Weekly blog. The Province of Quebec and its municipalities have just struck a deal that’ll make Toronto, and other Ontario...
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Street-side mood lighting, bike tips and tactics
Spacing‘s associate editor Shawn Micallef has an article in the Globe and Mail today about street-side mood lighting in Wrexham, Wales. “If...
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Council Sidesteps Dog Decision
What is the public space conflict that arouses the most intense passions in the largest number of people? Is it cyclists versus motorists on our streets...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered