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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...
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Big Brother is Broke
The Globe and Mail reports that the Feds would love to put video cameras in all public transit but they don’t have the cash right at the moment...
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Oh Wente
I avoid Margaret Wente’s column generally, because by doing so I remember that the Globe is a good paper with columnists who actually do some...
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The City as a Playground
Back in Spacing #3 (Work & Play issue, Dec. 2004) we profiled parkour and urban games. The Star and the Globe have recently caught on to these...
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Transit geeks can make their kids transit geeks
If you have a little one on a school vacation and want to start your pro-transit brainwashing (which we encourage) you should check out this event taking...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered