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TONIGHT: Graffiti Art Show
THEM, a graffiti art organization which works to find employment for young urban artists, is hosting an art show tonight at It’s Not A Deli (986...
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TONIGHT: Ecobunk Awards
Do you ever get upset when you see blatantly misleading advertisements? So does the Toronto Environmental Alliance. Each year they host Ecobunk, a...
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Paul Dotey’s “Bridge”
Local artist Paul Dotey handed me a copy of his six-page zine at the release party of Spacing‘s current issue. I had it on my “must read...
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Bus Shelters of Mellieha
Spacing Associate Editor Shawn Micallef is in Europe during December and is posting sporadically throughout the month. — The Editors I arrived in...
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New Orleans Installs Free Public Wi-Fi
The City of New Orleans is installing free public Wi-Fi (wireless internet connection) throughout the city, by hanging simple, cheap, shoebox-sized boxes...
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Greening Toronto’s roofs
Spacing Wire reader Brendan Stewart sent this along: The City of Toronto is currently in the middle of a process to develop a policy that will encourage...
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Solid and Memorable Edinburgh
It’s hard not to compare Edinburgh and Toronto while here —- it’s problematic though because it’s easy to be knocked over by...
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Scottish Stickum
I’ve been wandering around Edinburgh for the last seven days. It’s a tangle of old streets, volcanic rock, super green grass, bone-chilling...
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Gentrify this!
Gentrification is a hot topic in all cities, and the neighbourhoods surrounding Toronto’s downtown core are no exception. Much of the West Queen...
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Utilitarian canvases
The Spacing Wire posted back on October 7th, 2005 about the work Joe Pantalone’s office is doing with local graffiti artists and Bell utility boxes...
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Dying to walk
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently ran an article linking pedestrian deaths to an individual’s socio-economic standing. The article even points...
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Cycling calendar by CBN
If you don’t know about the Community Bicycle Network, you should visit their web site. They are the ones trying to convince City Hall to make this...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered