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Public space in the news today
Here are a few links to articles in today’s papers: The TTC is going shopping for new streetcars. The photo above, from Minneapolis, is the new...
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Catcalls
It’s easy for a male like myself to forget that public space can be made significantly less friendly for women, through catcalling by men...
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Pedestrian Bridges
In Saturday’s Globe and Mail, John Lorinc reports that there is a proposal afoot for a pedestrian bridge designed by architect Will Aslop (of OCAD...
By Dylan Reid -
Making Rural Development Work
The Town of Caledon, a rural area just north of Brampton, has come up with a promising way to encourage development without sprawl. The township prides...
By Dylan Reid -
Ottawa Public Space
I went on a trip to Ottawa in the fall, and noticed good, interesting, and bad public space initiatives. The Good Ottawa has made many pedestrian-oriented...
By Dylan Reid -
Community-guided development
In Thursday’s Toronto Star, Christopher Hume writes an excellent piece about the efforts of community group Active 18 to create a...
By Dylan Reid -
Art installation gets bomb squad call
On April 1st, five teenager girls, ages 16 to 17, put up question block icons seen in Super Mario video games. The clever public art installation in...
By Matthew Blackett -
Who wants to build Toronto’s street furniture?
The Globe and Mail reports today that the City of Toronto met with companies who will potentially bid on the street furniture contract. There is...
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St. George Street signage we can get behind
These photos are from a mobile LED display on St. George Street taken tonight on the U of T campus. Rumour is it’s the handiwork of a group called...
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New media vs. old media
On most days, the Spacing Wire tracks what is going on in the public realm of this city, linking to articles and columns in the major daily papers, the...
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Superboxes, Megabins & Freedom of the Press
The Globe & Mail reports today on the move towards aggregating the muddle of newspaper boxes on our public streets. Although it is always good to get...
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Queens Quay Swan
This afternoon I was walking along Queens Quay, head down (was the ugly part around Spadina) and came across this dead swan lying peacefully in the middle...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered