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Best Public Spaces in the World
The Project for Public Spaces, a non-profit out of NYC that helps communities and cities build smart public spaces, has an interesting feature on their...
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Spying on Gated Communities
A group called Heavy Trash has installed “viewing platforms” on the edges of gated communities in Los Angeles. Heavy Trash is “an...
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Spacing goes national!
This image was captured by a Spacing reader in Halifax outside the city’s seminal newsstand Atlantic News. Why is a store in Halifax carrying our...
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Reading Toronto Spits
Guest writer Chris Thomaidis has put up a series of posts on the Reading Toronto blog about the Leslie Street Spit/Tommy Thompson Park. He talks about the...
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[murmur] wants your Spadina Stories!
[murmur] is happy to announce we have started on our biggest project yet: Toronto’s Spadina Avenue. We are currently searching for and recording...
By Shawn Micallef -
Public Office Space
The Globe and Mail has a rare article about the increased demand for better office space including bicycle amenities, better food and public-private...
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Parking Lot of Dreams
The Toronto Star has a good story today dispelling myths about public space in the burbs. The dance troupe Rated Inc. reclaims a Jane and Finch area...
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Should Canadian cities install security cameras on streets?
The Globe and Mail runs daily opinion polls, and the question posed the other day was: “Most of London is monitored by police cameras. Should...
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Transmedia 29:59 Launch in Dundas Square
TRANSMEDIA :29:59 A project by Year Zero One Curated by Michael Alstad and Michelle Kasprzak This Wednesday, August 3rd, a programme of one minute videos...
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Public space Saturday
The Globe and Mail had a bunch of interesting articles today. The first article was about the number of stray cats running around in our alleys. Some say...
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This just in: Gridlock is Bad
John Tory just announced the Ontario Conservative initiative to solve our Gridlock problem. They’ve set up this website, as a place where you can...
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The Bridge
Shadowland, a neat theatre company located on our Toronto Islands, has some festvities planned for tonight called “The Bridge” on Ward’s...
By Shawn Micallef
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered