Walking
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Dark News
In the Toronto Star today: Christopher Hume sees the dark and supports the cause for annual blackout day. Meanwhile renegade senior citizens fight...
By Chris Hardwicke -
What are we scared of?
We love Christopher Hume. He is a valiant defender of the public realm. Sometimes he gets so excited about his cause that his writing becomes frenetic...
By Chris Hardwicke -
The City as a Playground
Back in Spacing #3 (Work & Play issue, Dec. 2004) we profiled parkour and urban games. The Star and the Globe have recently caught on to these...
By Matthew Blackett -
Pedestrian death and transit safety
The TTC and Toronto Police are launching a safety campaign that targets aggressive drivers, impatient cyclists, and pedestrians running into traffic to...
By Matthew Blackett -
Home Tours with Darren O’Donnell
As part of the Summerworks festival, Darren O’Donnell’s theatre company brings you Home Tours. Darren will take an audience around the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Street signs
If you haven’t noticed, over the last few months the city has been installing new street signs to replace some of the rusting and aging wayfinders...
By Matthew Blackett -
Neighbourhood walks in west Toronto
Architectural/social historian Alec Keefer, President of Architectural Conservancy Toronto, is leading a series of walks in Parkdale, High Park and the...
By Dylan Reid -
A flâneur manifesto
Shawn Micallef reveals in Eye this week the key to Toronto’s hidden beauty through walking: We’re told, over and over, that Toronto is not...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Best Public Spaces in the World
The Project for Public Spaces, a non-profit out of NYC that helps communities and cities build smart public spaces, has an interesting feature on their...
By Matthew Blackett -
Parking Lot of Dreams
The Toronto Star has a good story today dispelling myths about public space in the burbs. The dance troupe Rated Inc. reclaims a Jane and Finch area...
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Trashing EUCAN bins
Toronto Star columnist Slinger wrote a great piece ripping apart the EUCAN monster garbage bins. And he didn’t stop the blame game there — he...
By Matthew Blackett -
Get out of the city in the city
Spacing managing editor Dale Duncan wrote the cover story for Eye Weekly this week, “Urban Escape: how to get away from the concrete grind without...
By Matthew Blackett