San Francisco
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William Gibson and the Summer of Love — the author’s drug-fuelled days in Yorkville
It’s the summer of 1967. The Summer of Love. Hippie culture is at its height and Yorkville has become one of the biggest hubs for sex, drugs and...
By Adam Bunch -
GREENBERG: 8 steps to change the future of the Gardiner
It now appears that an important threshold has been crossed. With the news that over half of the elevated Gardiner Expressway on both sides of downtown...
By Ken Greenberg -
GREENBERG: Crumbling Gardiner offers Toronto an opportunity
The truth has now come out, albeit grudgingly. We have just learned via a Freedom of Information request by the Toronto Star that notwithstanding months...
By Ken Greenberg -
NO MEAN CITY: ‘tactical urbanism’ and the Green Line
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture Architects and urban designers, have a look at this: The Green Line, a new...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Urban Planet: Mission San Francisco de Asis
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
EVENT: Transport Futures Governance Summit
The folks at Transport Futures are offering Spacing subscribers a 15% discount on their upcoming Governance Summit, which takes place November 19th at the...
By Dale Duncan -
Urban Planet: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Today
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Urban Planet: Pop-Up Shop as Revitalization Strategy
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Instaflaneur: a new regular photo feature on Spacing from Shawn Micallef’s city wanders
Since I got a new iPhone last fall — with its rather good eight megapixel camera — the best and most useful app I installed on it has been Instagram. It...
By Shawn Micallef -
Urban Planet: Parking Spot Housing
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Urban Planet: San Francisco Disaster, 1906
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
STRAPHANGER: The Trouble with Downtown Los Angeles
This week, Spacing presents five excerpts from Straphanger, the new book by Montreal-based author Taras Grescoe. The book examines the success stories...
By Spacing