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BOOK LAUNCH: Spacing’s “50 Objects That Define Toronto”
BOOK LAUNCH for SPACING’S “50 OBJECTS THAT DEFINE TORONTO” WHEN: Tuesday, June 28th, 6:30-9:30pm WHERE: Fort York Visitor Centre (250 Fort York Blvd.) COST: Event is free, book sold for $10 FACEBOOK:...
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Canadian judge acknowledges anti-black racism in court
A Toronto judge has made history by explicitly considering anti-black racism as a mitigating factor in sentencing a young drug offender. Rather than receiving a year in jail as the Crown had wished...
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Book Review – Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
Authors: Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Reflecting on the history of humankind, one is hard-pressed to find a form of graphic representation more influential...
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Why did John Tory play the race card in transit politics?
In a moment of complete candor, Mayor John Tory implied in a Toronto Star op-ed on Monday that critics of the Scarborough subway are anti-immigrant —in effect, introducing a racist spotlight in a...
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LORINC: The Scarborough subway and the climate change agenda
What will future residents of Scarborough think, 30 or 40 years hence, when they cast their minds back to the craven transit decisions being made today by the likes of Mayor John Tory and his deputy,...
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READ: Twenty Years of Fife and Drum, the Friends of Fort York magazine
It’s billed as the newsletter of the Friends of Fort York, but Fife and Drum is really a magazine on both Toronto and Fort York’s contemporary history, and the daily operation of a National Historic...
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Book Review: Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture
Editors: Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley (Routledge, 2015) During the through the Depression and Post-War eras, two coalescing movements—women joining the work force, and the rise of modernism as...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: The Role of Community Arts in Toronto’s Public Art Landscape
By: Jeff Biggar I recently joined residents in Mabelle Park to celebrate ‘Iftar Nights’, a sundown celebration to break the fast during Ramadan. People gathered around a fire, there was a musical...
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EVENT: Come meet the 2016 winners of the Jane Jacobs Prize
WHEN: Monday, July 18, 2016 WHERE: 401 Richmond St W., Urban Space Gallery TIME: 6:30-8:30pm COST: Free! SHARE: Spread the word on Facebook We invite you to a ceremony to announce the 2016 winners of...
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40 in the shade: Toronto’s worst heatwave
For an excruciating week in July, 1936, Toronto, the province, and much of Canada burned. An unprecedented and deadly continent-wide heatwave forced temperatures into the low- to mid-40s, killing...
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Misleading Leaside: Lobbyists score a hat trick with digital billboard
Outfront Media wants to construct a massive digital billboard in the residential community of Leaside. The problem is, no one wants digital billboards in their neighbourhood, for obvious reasons, so...
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Book Review From The Stacks – The Miller|Hull Partnership: Public Works
“The Miller|Hull Partnership’s energy-conscious designs, love of local materials, and structural expressiveness helped define the essence of a new and exciting type of contemporary regionalism in...
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How to prioritize the safety of women on the TTC
This week, city council approved a motion by Kristyn Wong-Tam to review city services “to eliminate any existing bias against women” and ensure that budget allocations promote equity and women’s...
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Ahoy! Come to Spacing’s Boat Bash!
WHAT: Spacing Boat Bash (release of summer issue) WHEN: Tuesday, August 9th, 6:30-11:00pm WHERE: Peir 31, 333 Lake Shore Blvd. East TICKETS: $20 via Eventbrite LISTING: Spread the word on Facebook...
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LORINC: Why transit has become Toronto’s moral hazard
If I have to be brutally candid about my gut reaction to last week’s transit decision, I’ll confess that part of me felt the people of Scarborough are indeed getting the system they deserve: a...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 002 reveals the Jane Jacobs Prize winners
Spacing Magazine is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Jane Jacobs Prize, and Spacing Radio has in depth interviews with this year’s recipients. Leslie Chudnovsky has devoted 16 years to the...
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How to Build Safer Cities for LGBTQ Residents
For many marginalized groups, ‘public safety’ is never assumed. Recent debates on bathroom access for trans people, accounts of police brutality targeting sex workers, a seemingly endless string of...
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Spacing announces the 2016 recipients of the Jane Jacobs Prize
It is with great pleasure that Spacing announces that Leslie Chudovsky and Luke Anderson are the 2016 recipients of the Jane Jacobs Prize. The Jane Jacobs Prize is an annual award that celebrates...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: An Interview with Public Studio
Public Studio is the Toronto-based collective art practice of filmmaker and artist Elle Flanders and architect and artist Tamira Sawatzky. Since 2009, Public Studio has employed a diverse range of...
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The Toronto Park Pavilion needs your love
It’s hard not to love the Park Pavilion. Designed in 1958 by British-born architect Alan Crossley and consulting engineer Laurence Cazaly, the space age washroom and shelter in South Humber Park is a...
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