Walking
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Event Guide: Walking Strategy Designer’s Forum
How can Toronto’s design community contribute to making Toronto a better city for walking? To help get the City’s new Walking Strategy off the...
By Dylan Reid -
Fixing the Suburbs: GO Transit Hubs and Oakville Midtown
GO Transit is in the throes of major expansion. Examining how the system’s stations influence their surroundings, and how this, in turn, affects the...
By Marcus Bowman -
Walking backwards in Times Square
Last week film artist Hye Yeon Nam produced a charming video of herself walking backwards through the Times Square area. Well, in the film she’s not...
By Matthew Blackett -
Wednesday’s headlines
TORONTO’S CAPITAL BUDGET • Proposed 2010-2019 Toronto capital budget [ Toronto Sun ] • Financial manoeuvres fund capital budget [ National...
By Katia Snukal -
Informal infrastructure and haunted house in Scarborough
In late September, I had the privilege of sitting in on one of the walkability studies that are taking place in conjunction with the City’s Tower...
By Dylan Reid -
Ad Creep: “Spirit is Everything”
On Friday, I noticed that the sidewalks around the Yonge-Queen intersection have been painted with stenciled ad messages promoting the Toronto Maple...
By Sean Marshall -
How to encourage stairs instead of escalators
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw[/youtube] I’m one of those annoying people who you find walking up the stairs of a subway...
By Matthew Blackett -
New pedestrian scramble takes a right turn
photos by Sam Javanrouh — also view series on Spacing’s Flickr account In a rainy debut Friday morning, Toronto’s newest pedestrian...
By Todd Harrison -
Don’t park that scooter on the sidewalk
With the expansion of the use of scooters in the city (Vespa is the most famous brand), I noticed a lot more of these scooters parked on sidewalks this...
By Dylan Reid -
JOHN LORINC: Tunnel visions
Here’s something for public space advocates to chew on: With their plan for a $38 million tunnel to the Toronto City Centre Airport, Robert Deluce...
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STREET SCENE: Watch For Pedestrians
They have a way of moving in any direction. Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Events Guide: Pedestrian Sunday Kensington – Blackout Anniversary
WHAT: Blackout anniversary edition of Pedestrian Sunday Kensington WHEN: Sunday, August 16, 2009 from 1PM – 7PM (10PM on north Augusta) WHERE...
By Spacing