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  • Segways banned in Holland

    From today’s Toronto Star: Dutch police banned Segways from all public roads, bike paths and walkways as of New Year’s Day, surprising the...

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  • Best of 2006: Tree Pit Liberation

    All over Toronto in 2006 people and businesses have been removing the cement covers that strangle our street trees, turning that little patch of uncovered...

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  • Perverse Psychogeography?

    “Psychogeography” seems to be generally considered a relatively benign observational activity — a random drifting through the city to...

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  • Chainlink Beautiful?

    The new “Bennet Gates” at the south end of Philosopher’s Walk on the University of Toronto campus recently won a “Clean and...

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  • “We’re all pedestrians” campaign wins award

    While we at Spacing have serious beefs with outdoor advertising, we do have a sense of humour and can appreciate creativity when we see it. So kudos to...

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  • Walking from JFK

    In today’s New York Times there is an article on a walk English author Will Self took from JFK into Manhatten. It took him six hours. Self is a...

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  • Carlton Canyon

    The walk west on Carlton has changed over the past year and become quite a nice and cozy canyon. The addition of the new glass condo just east of Yonge...

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  • News of the World

    Last week, Spacing‘s Dale Duncan wrote an article in Eye Magazine about five great public space ideas from other cities. She cited an initiative in...

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  • Tuesday’s links

    Rookies arrive in Hall of power [Toronto Star]: Beginning at 1 p.m. [Chin Lee] and the six others — Adam Vaughan, Anthony Perruzza, John Parker...

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  • Making Toronto’s streets

    Streets are at the heart of a city. They take up a quarter of all land in the city. They should be the places where people gather and experience urban...

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  • Crossing anywhere on St. George

    The Star‘s “Fixer” had an interesting story recently about curb cuts along St. George St. in the University of Toronto campus. During...

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  • Do lazy people move to the suburbs?

    Researchers have established in recent years that there is a correlation between obesity and sprawl — people in low-density suburbs, who have to...

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