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Skate Furniture
We-make-money-not-art reports on a Tom Hawes project that helps skateboarders find their place in public space: Skateable Furniture is a range of benches...
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Saving St. Clair? Judge rules today
Somthing to watch for today: a court decision on whether to let construction of the St. Clair Right of Way to continue. In the Star today they sum it up...
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Butter Jam
The butter billboard campaign may be clever, but this jam of the campaign (on Spadina north of Queen) is even better, turning an ad into a sci-fi...
By Dylan Reid -
Skyways and Ice Houses
Every other Wednesday, Salon.com is featuring The Big Idea: a look at architecture and design ideas to build a future around. Their recent posting led me...
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ProJet Montréal
It’s kind of nice that, at least officially, party politics is not a lynchpin of Canadian municipal elections. Watching the post-Katrina terror...
By Shawn Micallef -
Writing in Public
Since 1999, Found magazine has been collecting messages found in public areas and sharing them with the world. This week, the Toronto Star published an...
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Remaking the face of public space
If you have a copy of today’s Globe and Mail you should flip to page A16 for a feature on our friends at the Toronto Public Space Committee and...
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Squabble on the waterfront
As usual, whenever there is talk about Toronto’s waterfront, sniping and mixed messages are sure to follow. In the Toronto Star today, Christopher...
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Sidewalk art in Ward 19
City Councillor Joe Pantelone’s office (ward 19) have a neat pilot project going on: they have convinced Bell to let them hire local artists to...
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SPACING: subway buttons receive award
The American graphic design magazine HOW Design named Spacing‘s Toronto subway station button collection the third best wearable item in their 2005...
By Matthew Blackett -
Eglinton Station Gets Arty
Toronto’s Live With Culture campaign is taking artwork and performance out of the galleries and theatres and bringing it to where people live, work...
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Go Leafs
On this last of the hot and sticky evenings I was riding down Yonge to the YMCA, thinking it was unusually quiet. I had the streets to myself — or...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered