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Bumvertising
I was up the other night watching the Daily Show when they did a report on Bumvertising. Benjamin Rogovy, a 22-year-old “entrepreneur”, as...
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Viacom’s breaking all the rules
The Toronto Public Space Committee has researched the contract that Viacom has with the City of Toronto for ads on transit shelters and has found that...
By Dave Meslin -
Adding insult to injury
It’s not enough that the City has allowed Astral Media to put up massive billboards in our parks disguised as bogus “information...
By Dylan Reid -
Patchwork soccer
Spacing‘s “Work and Play” issue discussed the importance of play in public space, both as a way of asserting public use of space, and as...
By Dylan Reid -
Pedestrian posters
The City of Toronto recently launched a new set of posters aimed at making drivers more aware of pedestrians. The posters feature cars being damaged when...
By Dylan Reid -
How the streets get cleaned
It’s easy to forget how much work it takes to keep our public spaces clean. This weekend, the Globe and Mail featured a great story in its weekend...
By Dylan Reid -
Guerrilla Gardening in the Star (again)
Yes, it was only two weeks ago when the Toronto Star did a feature on Guerrilla Gardening, but Christopher Hume looks at the act of vandalizing with...
By Matthew Blackett -
Skyscrapers of the world
Toronto is a weird place when it comes to tall buildings. We have the CN Tower, the world’s tallest free-standing structure in the world. But...
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Toronto photobloggers at Apple Store tonight
Spacing is sponsoring a presentation on Toronto-area photoblogs tonight at the Yorkdale Apple Store. Some of the city’s most shutter-happy...
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Union on two wheels?
Today’s Globe and Mail has an interesting article on the drive to unionize Toronto’s bike couriers. As it stands, most couriers earn about...
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The Barren Poles of Calgary
There’s a lot of cultural stuff going on Calgary — it isn’t all cows and oil — but you would hardly know it walking down the...
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Eco-Feedback
Environmental effects are not always as dramatic as Katrina. Often we forget about our affect on the ecosystem as it is slow to change or even invisible...
By Chris Hardwicke
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered