Politics
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Who’s Driving the City?
While London is installing solar powered lighting in its busstops and New York is putting thousands of new bus shelters, newsstands and, public washrooms...
By Chris Hardwicke -
SPACING EVENT: City Club of Toronto?
The City Club of Toronto? Ideas and Experiences from Portland Spacing invites you out to an event we are helping promote. Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005 &bull...
By Matthew Blackett -
Viacom’s breaking all the rules
The Toronto Public Space Committee has researched the contract that Viacom has with the City of Toronto for ads on transit shelters and has found that...
By Dave Meslin -
Adding insult to injury
It’s not enough that the City has allowed Astral Media to put up massive billboards in our parks disguised as bogus “information...
By Dylan Reid -
Pedestrian posters
The City of Toronto recently launched a new set of posters aimed at making drivers more aware of pedestrians. The posters feature cars being damaged when...
By Dylan Reid -
12 Lessons from 12 Cities
The Globe and Mail’s Tralee Pearce offers Mayor Miller some tips from other cities ranging from free wireless networks, public events, wind powered...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Toronto City Hall is turning 40
Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:30 – 10 pm The September 1965 opening of the newly designed City Hall marked an era of architectural experimentation...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Gas tax cometh
It seems like there has been a lot of transit-type news lately. So here’s another one, this time from today’s Toronto Star. “Nothing...
By Matthew Blackett -
Sewell on street signs
John Sewell writes in Eye this week about the erection of the re-designed street signs. Over the past year he has had a very difficult time getting City...
By Matthew Blackett -
No to TVs in subway cars
On Wednesday, TTC commissioners voted 4 to 3 against a pilot project that would place TV screens with endless commercial loops in our subway cars. Hats...
By Matthew Blackett -
We Heart Dufferin Grove Park
Spacing editor Dale Duncan, writes in Eye this week: “From the bus stop outside Dufferin Mall, Dufferin Grove seems like many of the other 1,460...
By Matthew Blackett -
Mayor doesn’t need more power
Spacing thinks the most public of public spaces in Toronto should be City Hall. It is where the beacon of local democracy should fly highest. There are...
By Matthew Blackett