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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • A gate fit for a prince

    John Lorinc has an article in the Globe & Mail today about a facelift at the CNE: Tomorrow morning the city will cut the ribbon on a landscaped...

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  • New garbage bins and newspaper boxes on T.O.’s streets

    It must be summer vacation at One Yonge Street because the Star is reporting today on the death of the MegaBins (Spacing reported this development back on...

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  • A glimpse of the future?

    There was an article in the Star a few days ago about how the city will be temporarily closing down Queen’s Quay improve pedestrian access to the...

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  • Cross Where You Want

    Pedestrians in Toronto have the right to cross the street wherever they want (with a few restrictions). We tend to think of crossing the street mid-block...

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  • Street Furniture Placement Open House

    The City of Toronto is hosting an open house to provide the public with an opportunity to learn about the Street Furniture draft Placement Guidelines and...

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  • Mis-Guided

    Mis-Guide is a book and website created by Wrights & Sites, a group of four UK based artists. Mis-Guide is a guide book that can be used in any city...

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  • A Walk in the Park

    David Gallaugher, a student at the Dalhousie School of Architecture in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has created a grass-lined wheel to simulate an eternal lawn...

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  • New article by Rebecca Solnit

    Rebecca Solnit, whose wonderful book Wanderlust I would recommend to any psychogeographer or public space enthusiast, has just posted a great article on...

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