Spacing Toronto

Dutch Sheep Complicit in Ad Plot

The New York Times and other outlets are reporting on an ad campaign in the Dutch countryside that is wrapping sheep in ads for an online hotel...

By Shawn Micallef

Spacing

SPACING: new issue release party May 2nd

Spacing Release Party When: Tuesday, May 2nd, doors 8pm Where: Gladstone Hotel • 1214 Queen Street West Who: DJ Chris Thinn How much: $10 includes...

By Spacing

Traffic

Three Choices for Scarborough

Photo by Calum Tsang. Crossposted to Transit Toronto. Scarborough residents won’t receive the full presentation until later tonight, but the Toronto...

By James Bow

Events

Motorhead Beachhead

The Beaches vs. The Beach is not the only battle on the beach in Toronto — a coalition of Parkdale community groups is trying to stop a waterfront...

By Shawn Micallef

Walking

Montreal Street Furniture Project

I’ve been posting my impressions of public space in some cities I’ve visited recently, and the last of the current bunch is Montreal. Montreal...

By Dylan Reid

Community

How to be a great city; pedestrianizing Toronto; homeless survey

The Star on Sunday has some more good articles on city building. 1. From “How to be a great city”: What are the forces that shape the urban...

By Matthew Blackett

Bikes

Live Free and Die (on bikes)

I bought this hot (as in sexy, not stolen) Peugeot bike in Windsor last week for $40, complete with “new rubber” and in very good working...

By Shawn Micallef

Bikes

Public space catch-all post

Here are a number of articles from the last few days: Trash: A recommendation that York and Durham regions’ trash be incinerated will likely cause...

By Matthew Blackett

Transit

New Streetcars More Likely in TTC’s Future

This past Wednesday, TTC Commissioners decided to rebuild only 100 CLRVs of its fleet of 196. The rebuilds would begin in 2007 and ramp up to 30 cars per...

By James Bow

Traffic

Spadina Streetcar Operating Below Full Potential?

In discussing the TTC’s proposal for multiple-unit operation, transit activist Steve Munro notes that coupling two streetcars together as a means of...

By James Bow

Architecture

To Hide and Protect

Royson James has a great piece in the Toronto Star today critiquing the 2.4-metre-high cedar fences being erected around Toronto police stations. These...

By Chris Hardwicke

Transit

TTC promotions

Ed Drass of the Metro daily transit paper has a column today on the TTC’s promotional ideas. The column includes a nod to Spacing‘s...

By Matthew Blackett