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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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  • CP24 — Everywhere, even the sidewalk

    I like CP24. It’s a useful channel, and does some good local features. I can even imagine that in rare instances, for a breaking news story on a...

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  • Oh Canada

    Dominion Day Weekend was spent in dear Windsor, a most American of a hometown that tends to hide in cars and behind air-conditioned walls to escape the...

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  • Walking Philosophy

    Pedestrians will take the shortest available route where they need to go. And there’s really no reason why they shouldn’t be able...

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  • Billboards in the city

    Today’s Globe and Mail has an article about video billboards and the effect they have on drivers. From Dr. Gridlock’s column today...

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  • EUCAN’T! Megabins are dead!

    Yesterday, it became official: the mega-bins are dead. The city planned to leave the existing bins and allow advertising for the next few years until the...

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  • Public space in the news today

    There are a whack of articles in the Star today that relate to public space issues: City councillors gave general approval yesterday for city staff to...

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