Urban environments and the media projects that explore them

(From Spacing -- illustration by Marlena Zuber)

The Montreal-based website UrbanPhoto, whose mission is "the exploration of cities through words and photography", has nice things to say about three media projects, two of which are magazines and one of which is...something else, sort of like a magazine.

The story highlights the work of Spacing magazine and [murmur], an audio project, both based in Toronto and Urbania, a two-year-old magazine based in Montreal.

Spacing, as readers of this blog will know, is a quarterly devoted to urban public space, its planning, enhancement and expansion.

[murmur], which is located in Toronto's Kensington market, Vancouver's Chinatown and Montreal (where it is called [murmure]) offers passersby the opportunity, via small signs, to dial a phone number and listen to audio clips of people's stories about the city.

Urbania started out as a design project and morphed into a magazine which, every issue, covers a particular theme about the city.

Interesting, thought-provoking article.