Walking
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Vancouver and Victoria public spaces
Andy Reeves will be covering ad creep and streetscape issues during the 2006 election for the Spacing Votes blog. Here’s a report by Reeves from his...
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Making the Streets Safe for Walkers (slowly)
Two interesting pedestrian initiatives are coming to the Works Committee of City Council on Monday, Sept. 11. The first is a proposal to extend the...
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New Pedestrian Space, Montreal
This attractive little space is the result of the pedestrian-oriented rebuilding of Bernard Street, a minor mixed commercial/residential street in...
By Dylan Reid -
Three people don’t make it “mixed reviews”
The Star has an article today about the Queen’s Quay pedestrian/bike lane experiment. They had quotes from three residents who didn’t seem...
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Saturday’s public space headlines
• Roadsworth getting his street cred [ Toronto Star ] • A problem with the Beav on Ward’s Island [ Toronto Star ] • A garden of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Blackout in Kensington
Today is the anniversary of the 2003 Blackout. Though it was extremely hot that night, it was also one of the best days I have ever experienced. I have...
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Pedestrian Collisions
The City of Toronto recently released the statistics for collisions involving pedestrians in 2005 (PDF file). Although the year-to-year changes are...
By Dylan Reid -
The bright lights and tall towers of Bundang
I’ve spent the past two weeks in the neighbourhood of Bundang in the city of Seongnam, South Korea. (My business here is not Spacing-related —...
By Dale Duncan -
T-shirts I like
Threadless.com is an ongoing t-shirt design competition. Each week, four to six designs (out of 600) are selected and sold through the oneline store. Two...
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Major walking conference coming to Toronto
City Council has just approved a proposal for Toronto to host the major world annual conference on pedestrianism, Walk21, in 2007, in conjunction with...
By Dylan Reid -
Quay to the City
It looks like we can get ready for our first taste of a revitalized central Waterfront. As reported before, Queen’s Quay West from Spadina to York...
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Weather Vanes
Here is some functional street furniture from the UK. McChesney Architects designed a series of innovative swivelling wind shelters on Blackpool’s...
By Chris Hardwicke