San Francisco
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City Hall: New garbage collection system approved by council
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. By a vote of 26-18, city council approved a new pay-as-you-throw garbage collection system before breaking for lunch today...
By Dale Duncan -
Park your tent
We’ve previously written about Park(ing), a fun project out of Los Angeles San Francisco that reclaims parking spots by placing sods of grass and a...
By Matthew Blackett -
Postopolis!
Four urban-themed blogs from four different cities, all similar in spirit to Spacing (BLDGBLOG from Los Angeles, City of Sound from London, Inhabitat from...
By Craig Cal -
San Francisco’s port lands redevelopment
I was in San Francisco just over a week ago, for the first time. One of the many things I did was try out the new T-Third Street light rail line, which...
By Sean Marshall -
Let’s green this city
San Francisco and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company have a fun web site called Let’s Green This City that outlines how citizens can reduce their...
By Matthew Blackett -
Madison, Wisconsin named most walkable US city
Madison, Wisconsin was named the most walkable city in the US in a recent ranking of the walkability of the largest 100 US cities, with Austin, Texas and...
By Dylan Reid -
Where have our streetcars gone?
It has been a bit of a mystery to me why the TTC (and Toronto for that matter) doesn’t take its transit history as seriously as it should. London...
By Sean Marshall -
Why “Toronto: You belong here” belongs here
Well, dress me up in a three-piece suit and call me a Rotman School of Management professor! According to a Star editorial today by RSM marketing prof...
By Leah Sandals -
Best of 2006: lists from around the continent
Did you know that for the first time in North America there are more poor residents of suburbs than central cities? Or that America’s older...
By Matthew Blackett -
JOHN LORINC COLUMN: Wishing for a hidden agenda
Wishing for a hidden agenda Cross-posted to Spacing Votes Jane Pitfield, the self-appointed defender of the Gardiner Expressway, alleges that Mayor David...
By Matthew Blackett -
Miller campaign embraces My Space, You Tube
cross-posted to Spacing Votes — post by Josh Hume David Miller has joined the ever-expanding legion of self-promoters by establishing his own...
By Spacing -
Future Billboards and Missing Toronto
Last night I saw the new movie Children of Men — it’s about a dystopian Britain in 2027 where all the women are infertile, so the human race...
By Shawn Micallef