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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Community transformation examples
The Sierra Club has an interesting feature on its website which allows you to flip through images of reimagined intersections in suburban sprawl areas...
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The High Cost of Free Parking
Terrence Belford writes a rather one-sided article about Toronto’s impending parking crisis in the Globe. What is bad news to the Globe: That is the...
By Chris Hardwicke
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered