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Guerilla gardening goes mainstream
Mainstream gardening writers are finally catching on to the guerilla gardening phenomena. We’ve seen articles on GG this summer in the Globe and...
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Israel security wall art
As Dylan Reid posted on the Wire August 22, 2005, the security wall Israel is building in the West Bank is being used as a public canvas for artists and...
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Road construction halted
Last month, housing developers unearthed a native burial ground while widening a road north of Canada’s Wonderland. What is worse, York Region...
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Life in the Bike Lane
Offthemapgallery is moving to a new location and celebrating the move with a Green Bike Convoy and an exhibition called Life in the Bike Lane curated by...
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Slipping through the CNE’s spectacle
Spacing associate editor Shawn Micallef wrote about the CNE in this week’s Eye. In keeping with his psychogeographic ways, Shawn wanders through the...
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Sewell on street signs
John Sewell writes in Eye this week about the erection of the re-designed street signs. Over the past year he has had a very difficult time getting City...
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York Region’s VIVA
The Toronto Star had some great coverage of York Region’s new VIVA transit system in the Saturday paper. Reading it online is fine, but the two page...
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No to TVs in subway cars
On Wednesday, TTC commissioners voted 4 to 3 against a pilot project that would place TV screens with endless commercial loops in our subway cars. Hats...
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Street art from around the world
If a wide range of graffiti and street art excites you, then you should bookmark the site Streetsy. The site is updated daily with most of the images...
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Documentary on Urban Exploration
A new documentary called “Echoes of Forgotten Places” about Urban Exploration: On the fringes of every city lie the relics of our industrial...
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A Toronto Poster Project
Artist Jackie Kriekle has put up a bunch of posters around Toronto neighbourhoods that invite people to explore and possibly comment on those areas. This...
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Plant seeds not bullets
The Toronto Star has a good news story about urban farming in the Jane-Finch neighbourhood. Run by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority the urban...
By Chris Hardwicke
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered