Tall buildings forum tonight

TALL BUILDINGS ~ Who is Planning Our City? TONIGHT! 7:30-9:30pm, free St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front Street East (2 blocks east of Union...

Royson James on the urban agenda

Royson James writes today in the Toronto Star about the urban agenda at the federal level now that we have a Tory government. There is nothing revealing...

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SPACING: The genius of grafitti artist Roadsworth

The Canadian answer to Britain’s Banksy, the world’s most legendary stencil artist, should be none other than Montreal’s Roadsworth. His...

Make your own subway sign

The New York Times reports on Andy Cheung’s NYC subway sign online generator. Visitors can go to his website: www.whereandy.com and generate their...

Give feedback on TTC video screens

The City of Toronto and the TTC are asking for your opinions on their new video screens that are slowly being installed on subway station platforms. You...

SPACING: last call for submissions

Spacing presents our second annual Public Space Invaders film night on Tuesday, February 28th at the Drake Hotel. We have received a good stack of...

Contrary to reports, not everyone hates Toronto

John Bentley Mays reviews uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto, in today’s Globe and Mail (FYI, 16 of the 34 contributors to uTOpia are also Spacing...

Play Needs Infrastructure

In Spacing’s third issue, Ed Keenan wrote about the importance of play — spontaneous or organized — for our city. This oft-neglected...

Secondhand Smog

Tanya Talaga reports in today’s Toronto Star about research from London connecting traffic congestion, smog and its health effects. The report...

Toronto and tall buildings

TALL BUILDINGS ~ Who is Planning Our City? Wednesday January 25, 7:30-9:30pm, free St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts 27 Front Street East (2 blocks east of...

Free metre parking for green vehicles

Salt Lake City, Utah became the fourth municipality in the States to offer free parking to the owners of fuel-efficient vehicles. Salt Lake City is...