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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Orange County’s very own SOS
Found this post by accident but I thought it was an interesting comparison to Toronto’s own Save Our St. Clair group. It seems back in 2003...
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Garbage scout
To continue with the theme of hacked Google Maps, I was forwarded a great project happening in New York. Seems you can take a photo with your cell phone...
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Mayor Miller Speaks on”Building a Great World City for the 21st Century”
Mayor David Miller gave Victoria College’s annual Keith Davey lecture this year on March 30, on the subject of “Building a Great World City...
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Save Otter Loop?
(Otter loop photograph by Richard Leitch) Adam Sobolak of the Toronto Architecture Conservancy sent me this press release about the group’s desire...
By James Bow
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered