Urban Design
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Losing a sense of “place”
I’ve been clearing out my old files, and I came across an article given to my me a couple of years ago by walking activist Helen Riley...
By Dylan Reid -
GO Transit’s new bike shelters
On a recent visit to my hometown of Brampton, I noticed a new GO Transit bike shelter freshly installed in front of the downtown Brampton station. The...
By Sean Marshall -
Lake Ontario and the signs that regulate our relationship with it
A Sunday walk along a choppy Lake Ontario to deserted HtO Park yesterday presented little distraction from reading the many signs in the Harbourfront...
By Shawn Micallef -
New Art of Suburbia — thoughts from Scarborough
ED: Tim Whalley, Executive Director of the Scarborough Arts Council, contributed the following reflection on the New Art of Suburbia panel that took place...
By Spacing -
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...
By Spacing -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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