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  • Today is CarFree Day

    Without the financial support of City Hall, Torontonians are holding their own Car Free Day. Thursday, September 22nd is World CarFree Day and...

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  • Pedestrian posters

    The City of Toronto recently launched a new set of posters aimed at making drivers more aware of pedestrians. The posters feature cars being damaged when...

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  • 12 Lessons from 12 Cities

    The Globe and Mail’s Tralee Pearce offers Mayor Miller some tips from other cities ranging from free wireless networks, public events, wind powered...

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  • Walk in Leslieville

    Saturday September 10th • 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Join Todd Irvine, a professional arborist from LEAF and his guest, City Councillor Paula Fletcher, for a...

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  • Toronto City Hall is turning 40

    Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:30 – 10 pm The September 1965 opening of the newly designed City Hall marked an era of architectural experimentation...

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  • Sewell on street signs

    John Sewell writes in Eye this week about the erection of the re-designed street signs. Over the past year he has had a very difficult time getting City...

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  • Toronto Psychogeography Society

    The Toronto Psychogeography Society likes to walk around Toronto (and other places too). Sometimes we post our city-wandering thoughts to our...

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  • Walking LA

    A woman named Lisa Salem is trying to walk all over Los Angeles, without going back home, with only a camera-fitted baby stroller sparsely packed with a...

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  • The newspaper box question

    Do newspaper boxes clutter, enhance or privatize public space? Read all about it: Spacing‘s own Dale Duncan has analyzed the newspaper box question...

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  • Tree Pit Gardening Angels come forward

    The gardening angels responsible for the Spadina tree pits in bloom have come forward – it’s urbanspace Property Group, who are responsible...

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  • How would you make Toronto a better city?

    The final results of the “Think Outside the Box” initiative—a month-long chance to vote for the top priority among a list of issues are in...

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  • Spadina tree pits in bloom

    Someone has been planting lush, beautiful gardens in the pits around trees on both sides of Spadina south of Sullivan. Possibly, in order to do so, they...

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