Urban Design
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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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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 -
Dalian: Heritage and Spectacle in China
Looking towards Friendship Square. The ball is supposedly supposed to resemble a soccer ball, and lights up in LED animations at night. While I was in...
By Sean Marshall -
Changchun: China’s Detroit
Culture Square I recently spent a few weeks in China, but unlike most western tourists, I skipped Beijing and Shanghai and went straight to the...
By Sean Marshall -
A mobile camera bike
Many of our readers will be familiar with the written and photographic work of Gayla Trail. She has been contributing her outstanding camera work to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Subway trains become office space
If you find yourself in London, England anytime soon, you may want to check out the work of the Village Underground in the Shoreditch neighbourhood. They...
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Giambrone sounds Metrolinx privatization alarm
TTC chair Adam Giambrone is sounding the alarm on the potential for provincially-mandated privatization of public transit just hours after the launch of...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
[murmur] & the Junction Arts Festival
[murmur] is pleased to announce we have launched our latest project in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood as part of this weekend’s Junction...
By Shawn Micallef -
N8R TXT brings location based poems to your mobile phone
Toronto artist Amos Latteier has just launched N8R TXT, a public art project where you can send in an SMS with your location, anywhere in Ontario, and...
By Shawn Micallef -
Pedestrian scramble time-lapse
Spacing teamed up with the highly-regarded photoblogger Sam Javanrouh to create a fun time-lapse of the new Yonge-Dundas pedestrian scramble (see below)...
By Matthew Blackett