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Yorkdale Rainbow
In Saturday’s Globe and Mail John Barber wrote about the “Yorkdale Rainbow,” or rather Arc en Ciel, the neon artwork by Michael Hayden...
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Naturalized Water Cleaning Planned for Toronto
Toronto is planning to establish a wetland in a neglected spot of public land near High Park that will clean stormwater before it is dumped into Lake...
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Active 18 design charrette
Originally posted on March 1st. This afternoon, Active 18 — the Queen West West community group that’s formed to provide a voice for residents...
By Matthew Blackett -
SPACING: voted best indie magazine in Toronto
The results are in from BlogTO‘s Best of Indie Toronto survey, and Spacing was voted the city’s best independent magazine. Thanks for voting...
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Reading Toronto post: ad nauseam
An article from yesterday’s National Post has been cross-posted on Reading Toronto’s website. It focuses on how Toronto’s planning...
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Commentary: It’s Time to Break Up the Queen Streetcar
The Queen streetcar remains one of the TTC’s most prominent and well-travelled routes, but it is a shadow of its former self. Twenty-five years ago...
By James Bow -
Spacing buttons + anagram map in Eye and Now this week
It was nice to see both Eye Weekly and NOW cover the silliness of the TTC’s cease and desist letter to RobotJohnny and his anagram subway station...
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We Are Traffic — Bike Themed Art Show
This appeared in my OCAD mail box today — I don’t know anything about it, but maybe some folks might be passing by and want to pop in and see...
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Bike lane stunt on Bloor
Cycling activists are holding a bike-lane making party on Friday at 2pm at Bloor and Yonge (the above photo is an attempt to visualize what the lane would...
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Talks – Citizens and Cities in Japan
The Asian Institute at the Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place) at the University of Toronto is holding two upcoming talks that deal...
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SPACING: what do other cities have that the TTC needs?
Over the last few weeks the Spacing Wire has been posting a lot of transit-related articles and links. This is probably happening because of the research...
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Anti-postering by-law not so anti anymore
I’ve been interested in city politics since my early-teenage years. My grandparents were active political volunteers and got me involved in every...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered