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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...
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Two new visions for the TTC
Vision #1: TTC commissioners will be debating on Wednesday whether Fleet Street should be home to the city’s next streetcar right-of-way (it would...
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Study of cycling in Canada
The Victoria Transport Policy Institute has issued an interesting study comparing cycling in six major Canadian cities. Despite Toronto’s many...
By Dylan Reid -
The sights and sounds of the TTC
Toronto Star writer Joe Fiorito seems to be able to capture the pulse of this city in his columns. His latest piece deals with ad-covered subway cars and...
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Graffiti film at the Bloor Cinema
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Bloor Cinema • 7pm • $9 Our friends at the Toronto Public Space Committee begin their public space cinema series The...
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Toronto Psychogeography Society
The Toronto Psychogeography Society likes to walk around Toronto (and other places too). Sometimes we post our city-wandering thoughts to our...
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Walking LA
A woman named Lisa Salem is trying to walk all over Los Angeles, without going back home, with only a camera-fitted baby stroller sparsely packed with a...
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The newspaper box question
Do newspaper boxes clutter, enhance or privatize public space? Read all about it: Spacing‘s own Dale Duncan has analyzed the newspaper box question...
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Death of an Urban Explorer
Jeff Chapman, a.k.a. Ninjalicious, the creator of the urban exploration zine Infiltration, died this week at the age of 31. Many moving tributes to him...
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Tree Pit Gardening Angels come forward
The gardening angels responsible for the Spadina tree pits in bloom have come forward – it’s urbanspace Property Group, who are responsible...
By Dylan Reid
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered