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The Beautiful City Billboard Fee
Them.ca, a Toronto-based non-profit street art organization, announced today the launch of a new project called The Beautiful City Billboard Fee (BCBF)...
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Sinister Paradise of Dubai
Dubai, the Las Vegas of the Middle East, has a distinctive and inviolable criterion when it comes to development in its city: everything must be...
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Lost Space on Church
Bert Archer has a new smart blog. He recently posted about the closing of the venerable Second Cup at Church and Wellesley – until recently home to...
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Generating An Alternative Night-Time Mobility
Saturday, July 16th @ 10:00PM Meeting points @ Mercer Union (37 Lisgar Street) and Front Street, in front of Union Station Explore Toronto’s public...
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Get to know the city this weekend
This weekend there are a number of excellent public space related events that are worth checking out. 1. Sorauren Park Summer Festival. Saturday. Spacing...
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Bikes and feet
Christopher Hume had an outpouring of response to his recent column on the state of walking in Toronto. He mainly focused his derision on drivers, but...
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Extreme Subway Makeovers
Could drab, functional Museum station one day feel like an extension of the Royal Ontario Museum, with Greek columns in the place of its current...
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Viva York Region
Close to home: Viva – York Region’s new rapid transit system – is making the TTC look silly. Their busstops have ticket vending...
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Great idea, wrong funding model
Could this be a Toronto bus stop? (image is from London’s transit system) Howard Moscoe, TTC Chair, has put forth a great idea — install a...
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Water Wars: From Durban to Toronto
The Toronto Environmental Alliance, in collaboration with Gallery 1313, present: Water Wars: From Durban to Toronto A Public Forum with: Shelley Petrie...
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40-storey ROM condo
The Royal Ontario Museum wants to build a 40-storey condominium tower on the current site of the McLaughlin Planetarium, and says it expects the...
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SPACING PHOTOBLOG
If you haven’t already seen it, Spacing has launched our own photoblog, SpacingPhotos. Every weekday a new image related to a theme will be posted...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered