Canada
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Reflections on Baltimore
Following up (and inspired by) on Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler’s post on walking in Washington, I happened to be in Charm City for a few days...
By Sean Marshall -
ARCHIVES: Reclaiming streets in the name of hockey
During the holiday season Spacing will re-publish articles previously seen in our print edition. This article appeared in Spacing #3, fall/winter...
By Matthew Blackett -
Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
By Shawn Micallef -
Bali: Canada, Climate Change, Harper and You
With the release of the Spacing “Green” issue, we have faith that many solutions to the widely-acknowledged-climate-crisis will come at the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Wartime Housing
Editor’s Note: This post is the second of an ongoing column exploring various architectural styles in and around Toronto. Spacing writer and...
By Thomas Wicks -
It was twenty-seven years ago today…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm68UteL0M[/youtube] …that John Lennon was killed in New York. There are many memorials to Lennon on YouTube...
By Shawn Micallef -
Stroll: Don Mills & photos from the Moccasin-Rainbow trail
This week’s stroll column in Eye Weekly had me wandering around Canada’s most famous suburb, Don Mills. I remember while growing up Don Mills...
By Shawn Micallef -
GIFT GUIDE: Fort York — A Short History and Guide
Toronto Culture division has just published “Fort York: A Short History and Guide.” Written by historian (and Chief Curator of Toronto...
By Shawn Micallef -
CCTV Fashion Police
In Toronto and much of Canada, the introduction of CCTV by police to monitor public space is still in its infancy, passionately supported in some...
By Shawn Micallef -
The Velomobile
In the Sunday Star’s Ideas section Leslie Scrivener wrote about the velomobile, the fibreglass-clad three-wheeled horizontal bicycle. In the (long...
By Shawn Micallef -
The Brutal Truth
Editor’s Note: This post is the first of what will be an ongoing column exploring various architectural styles in and around Toronto. Spacing writer...
By Thomas Wicks -
Cities & Ottawa
The Star’s business columnist David Olive wrote a piece about the extreme antipathy in Canada directed towards cities on Saturday: Outside Canada...
By Shawn Micallef