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  • Pedestrian Picnics

    Ordinarily, you’d think one of the last places to have a picnic would be a gas station. Not so for the organizers of Streets are for Picnics! On...

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  • Pedestrian Crossover Update

    Update on the city’s pedestrian crossover initiative — council has approved it. From the Adam Giambrone e-newsletter: Council approved a...

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  • Interesting City Bits

    Here are a few delighful bits of the city to watch out for on summer walks. Subway Mural I found this great mural of a subway train along Richmond Street...

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  • Laneway tours

    Graeme Parry leads great little tours of Toronto’s laneways. His first one starts this Saturday. There are a bunch of other tours this summer if you...

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  • Union Station Precinct Plan

    The Union Station Precinct Plan, prepared by a team of consultants led by Architects Alliance, has been released. It addresses the re-design of the public...

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  • “Street Design and Healthy Communities”

    Waterfront Action is hosting a panel discussion on Tuesday May 30 on the subject of “Street Design and Healthy Communities”. From their...

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  • Working out

    According to the recent news: we are all working too much. Perhaps we are trying to save up for a new condo in the sky? Because soon only the affluent...

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  • Wealthy Walking

      The City of Toronto is announcing today that the project for revitalizing the high-end shopping strip along Bloor West from Church Street to Avenue Road...

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  • Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington

    Based on extensive community consultation in the fall of 2005, the Kensington community again supports Pedestrian Sundays in 2006. This year, the...

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  • Parkour and knitting on the TTC

    Liz Worth, Spacing’s editorial assitant for the last year, has two pieces in the Toronto Star‘s ID section today. The first one is about the...

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  • Heritage Toronto walks Saturday and Sunday

    As part of this month’s Festival of Architecture & Design, Heritage Toronto is leading numerous different walks throughout the city. Each walk...

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  • Who You Gonna Call? Part 2

    The City of Toronto website is full of useful but hard-to-find information. As a follow-up to the sidewalk-obstacle-busting phone numbers I provided in an...

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