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Billboards we like
A group of young anti-war activists liberated a billboard in Los Angeles to make their voices heard. You can watch the Quick Time video by clicking here.
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Dark News
In the Toronto Star today: Christopher Hume sees the dark and supports the cause for annual blackout day. Meanwhile renegade senior citizens fight...
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Finding the soul of Toronto
Spacing‘s friend Pier Girogio DiCicco, Toronto’s poet laureate, wrote an emotional piece in the Star about Toronto and the city’s search...
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Community garden in Kensington
A mystery washing machine, filled with dirt and flowers, has appeared on sidewalks around Kensington over the last few weeks. Spacing intern Liz Worth...
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Changing tides of Chinatown
From the Toronto Star today: “Community leaders believe two seemingly contradictory goals — clinging to tradition and more savvy marketing...
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Urban Oases
The amazing Jeff Chapman has a wonderful website called Urban Oases that chronicles his, uh, times spent in Toronto fountains. He writes: “What is...
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Cutting trees to save trees
Approximately 7,000 trees will be cut down in Toronto and Vaughan in an attempt to stop the ongoing Asian long-horned beetle infestation. The massive...
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Alley Jaunt
If you need an art fix this weekend, Alley Jaunt is your poison. This Saturday and Sunday, the back alley garages surrounding Trinity Bellwoods Park are...
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Spacing featured in New Statesman
This week, the New Statesman and the Australian Financial Review are running edited versions of an article called “The future of the human race...
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What are we scared of?
We love Christopher Hume. He is a valiant defender of the public realm. Sometimes he gets so excited about his cause that his writing becomes frenetic...
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Graffiti Is Art
Graffiti Education: A seminar, from the Artist’s perspective History, significance, appreciation, culture, style, future? Next Seminar: Tuesday...
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Meeting on the fate of the Gardiner & Street Design
Thursday August 11, 2005 starting at 6:30 Location: 115 the Esplanade (near Church St.) East meeting room, ring bell 6:30pm: street design 7:30pm: the...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered