Urban Design
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Inside the belly of the General Motors headquarters
With the possible evaporation of the automobile industry — and especially GM’s near bankruptcy — a shot of the GM headquarters in...
By Shawn Micallef -
AGO Transformation transforms our views of Toronto
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog in anticipation of the grand re-opening...
By Shawn Micallef -
An interview with Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable on their 10th Anniversary
ED: Spacing is pleased to publish this guest post & interview by Montreal writer Alexandra Redgrave. This year marks the tenth anniversary of...
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A Street With a View in Pittsburgh
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDGyRO6w2o[/youtube] As Google Street View spreads from city to city, it’s inevitable that people will try...
By Shawn Micallef -
AGO Transformation: Alien views and the Toronto look
ED: For the next few weeks Spacing Associate editor Shawn Micallef will be the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog...
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Event Guide: World Town Planning Day
There’s a World Town Planning Day! Who knew? I didn’t, although perhaps some of our readers had heard of it. And it’s happening this...
By Dylan Reid -
Unbuilt Toronto launch tonight
We had a lot of fun putting together our Spring 2005 issue called “The History of Our Future:” all about grand plans that didn’t make it...
By Shawn Micallef -
Some Good Art Shows for the Geographically Inclined
There’s always good art showing in Toronto–even art for the map-obsessed. But this is a particularly good part of the fall for some...
By Leah Sandals -
Toronto’s corridor of power
On Sunday afternoon I walked this 8.4km stretch of the Finch hydro corridor (almost) in between the rain showers. The clouds came and went and came. The...
By Shawn Micallef -
Will Self Walks
Prolific author-walker Will Self was blogging at the New York Times this summer for a series called Necessary Steps. Self was in Toronto last year to...
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Shenzhen: China’s Instant City
The first half of my visit to China took me to the working class city of Changchun and the modern city of Dalian, both in Manchuria, in the northeast. The...
By Sean Marshall -
My favourite Mississauga space
Two weeks ago I was a member of Mississauga’s 2008 Urban Design Awards jury. I got to tour around the sprawling city — in a Mississauga...
By Matthew Blackett