San Francisco
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The Streets of San Francisco painted and lubed up
Toronto has been called “San Francisco upside down” because where they have hills, we have ravines. Their Victorians are wooden, ours are...
By Shawn Micallef -
Calinfrastructure
I’m not sure if it’s boring or interesting or just weird to post pictures of foreign garbage cans — but I’m always struck at the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Street Scat
A handful of these fine things are scattered around the downtown San Jose. They’re in other cities like San Francisco and Paris, and in San Jose it...
By Shawn Micallef -
Lazy days of summer at Spacing
Almost everyone who contributes to the Spacing Wire is on, or is going on, vacation over the next month. The destinations include Victoria BC, Ontario...
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The grey areas of ad creep
I came across three advertising campaigns that are worth noting. The first is a City of San Francisco outreach campaign to property owners asking them to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Bike parking spots and Chicago’s Bike 2015 Plan
The above photo is from San Francisco — a good example of recognizing the importance of bike facilities. Spacing public art editor Leah Sandals...
By Matthew Blackett -
City wiki in Cali
Spacing Associate editor Shawn Micallef has a short article in the Globe and Mail today about city wiki projects. Everyone has an opinion or a bit of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Google Kills Your Time
Hours and hours can be spent looking at Google maps. Apart from revolutionizing communication and changing the way we live, it might just be the best...
By Shawn Micallef -
Roadwitching, Toronto-style
Chris Hardwicke posted on the Spacing Wire the last two days about Roadwitching in London and San Francisco. We received the above image from Martin Reis...
By Matthew Blackett -
PARK(ing)
The San Francisco based group Rebar created their own roadwitching by renting a parking space for a temporary park. 70% of public land is devoted to the...
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Subverting graffiti
Christopher Hutsul has an interesting piece in the Toronto Star today about a Sony graffiti promotion in NYC and San Francisco: Graffiti purists are...
By Matthew Blackett -
NYC & SF transit don’t like iPod subway maps
In late August, the Spacing Wire reported on the wonderful website iPod Subway Maps. Designer William Bright created images of 12 cities’ subway...
By Matthew Blackett