Walking
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Pedestrian concerns all but ignored
Spacing‘s Associate Editor Dyland Reid wrote in NOW this week about the City’s new street standards, and he was quite critical — the...
By Matthew Blackett -
The urban environment can make you skinny — or fat
A new research project is being developed in the United States to quantify the degree to which the urban environment — mixed use, density, public...
By Dylan Reid -
Secondhand Smog
Tanya Talaga reports in today’s Toronto Star about research from London connecting traffic congestion, smog and its health effects. The report...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Public Space News
As part of the reconstruction of the Don Mount Court project, the city is considering closing part of Carroll Street (between Matilda and Thompson) to...
By Dylan Reid -
Birmingham pedestrians and Public Space
The city of Birmingham, formerly a car-centric industrial city, has tranformed its central core into a pedestrian-friendly neighbourhood of pleasing...
By Dylan Reid -
SPACING: Toronto designers wins Chicago recycle bin contest
SPACING.ca FEATURE: In the summer of 2005, the American Institute of Architects/Chicago Young Architects Forum called for design submissions for an...
By Matthew Blackett -
Segways Put in their Place — For Now
The Segway issue came back again to the City of Toronto’s Works Committee this morning, in a lively and sometimes surreal debate. The good news is...
By Dylan Reid -
TTC to reconnect station to its landscape
The TTC has hired a group including noted Toronto architects Brown + Storey to help re-configure Victoria Park station and re-connect it to the ravine...
By Dylan Reid -
Editorial on ads vs. art; young pedestrian killed
You know you’ve made it as an effective community group when newspapers start writing editorials about your campaigns. The Toronto Public Space...
By Matthew Blackett -
EUCAN’s pants are on fire
As most readers of Spacing know, we are not fans of the EUCAN bin. You can read all about our reasons here, here, here, or here. There is no doubt in our...
By Matthew Blackett -
Pedestrian Plans Galore
As Toronto begins the preliminary stages of developing a Pedestrian Plan, it’s useful to see what others have done. Bicyclinginfo.org...
By Dylan Reid -
Today’s Traffic News
A story in the Toronto Star today showed that, despite the hype about gun-related deaths in Toronto, the car was deadlier than the gun in 2005. In...
By Dylan Reid