Spacing Magazine competition

One of the unfortunate issues is the lack of youth involved in the political system. Call me crazy, but y'all babyboomers are gonna be dead one day and there isn't going to be anybody competent to take over because youth have been reduced to working for minimum wage at Starbucks (with the added bonus of getting free coffee and a caffiene addiction to Starbucks coffee for the rest of their lives).

So when an opportunity comes along to engage youth- we better take it. Spacing Mgazine's coordinator, Matt Hague, wanted to let me know they are having an urban design competition. Check it out:

DEADLINE: Monday, September 22, 2008WEB SITE: http://spacing.ca/thinktorontoFACEBOOK: http://spacing.ca/thinktoronto-facebook/PDF of POSTER: http://spacing.ca/thinktoronto/poster/thinktoronto-poster-schools.pdf
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thinkTORONTO invites people — 35 years old or younger — with creativeideas on how to improve Toronto’s public spaces. The competition thatwill help celebrate the magazine’s 5th anniversary in December 2008.Architects, urban planners, landscape architects, designers, artistsof all disciplines, students, and the urban curious are allencouraged to submit their plans to tweak, improve, or redesignstreetscape elements and specific areas of Toronto.
thinkTORONTO seeks ideas from the next generation of city builderswho want to challenge how we view Toronto’s public realm. Thecompetition gives participants a platform to explore and experimentwith Toronto’s urban landscape and generate a dialogue amongTorontonians about creative and sustainable solutions in our sharedcommon spaces.
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ABOUT SPACING MAGAZINESpacing focuses on the joys, obstacles, and politics of Toronto'surban landscape. Since the launch of the magazine in 2003, Spacinghas been hailed as an innovative publication that swings way aboveits weight. Spacing has changed the way the local media reports onpublic space issues and its editors and contributors are consideredamong the next leaders of Toronto. In both 2007 and 2008, Spacing wasnamed Canadian Small Magazine of the Year by the Canadian Society ofMagazine Editors; Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett was given aUrban Leadership Award by the Canadian Urban Institute in 2007; in2006 the magazine took home a gold medal in the National MagazineAward for Best Editorial Package, and in 2008 captured a silver medalin the same category. The magazine's blogs have been consistentlyvoted by numerous local publications as one of the city's best onlinemedia outlets.

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