Walking
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Salt is no solution for icy walkways
That’s not snow in this picture of the Danforth GO train platform — it’s all salt. My wife took this photo on New Year’s Eve...
By Todd Harrison -
Picturing DC
WASHINGTON DC — At the risk of turning this blog into Spacing DC, I’m going to share a few more public space-related photographs from my...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
ARCHIVES: Underneath the layers
During the holiday season Spacing will re-publish articles previously seen in our print edition. This Toronto Flà¢neur column by Shawn Micallef appeared...
By Shawn Micallef -
ARCHIVES: A shifting waterfront
During the holiday season Spacing will re-publish articles previously seen in our print edition. This Toronto Flà¢neur, appeared in Spacing #6, spring...
By Shawn Micallef -
Travelling on snowy sidewalks with my baby
This is my first winter as a dad. As you can imagine, life for me and my young family is filled with new experiences — most of them of the amazing...
By Todd Harrison -
Rating the walkability of your neighbourhood
In the fall, I stumbled across an interesting web site called Walk Score dedicated to rating the walkability of neighbourhoods. Originally, it was only...
By Matthew Blackett -
American cities becoming more walkable
The Brookings Institution in the US has recently published a study, “Footloose and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30...
By Dylan Reid -
Help develop Toronto’s walking strategy – and other walking notes
As I’ve noted in passing in some previous posts, the City of Toronto is currently developing a “Walking Strategy” to guide Toronto...
By Dylan Reid -
Kensington Pedestrian Sundays help clear the air
We’re launching Spacing’s “green” issue in a week, on Monday Dec. 3. To give our readers a taste of the kind of questions...
By Spacing -
Prefix Photo takes a stroll through your consciousness
An event and issue dedicated, in part, to ideas surrounding “walking and consciousness” from the good people at Prefix Photo. What: Release of...
By Shawn Micallef -
Pedestrians crossing mid-block in Toronto: the definitive guide
Last summer, I wrote an article in NOW magazine about pedestrians crossing in the middle of a block, noting that it is in fact legal to do so, so that...
By Dylan Reid -
Greek pedestrians take direct action
We think there’s a lot to do to make Toronto more pedestrian-friendly, but a recent article in the New York Times about pedestrian problems in...
By Dylan Reid