50 Objects That Define Toronto: Old City Hall Gargoyles
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
View ArticleBook Review: Friedman House
Written by Richard Cavell, ORO Editions (2017) UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Following Dr. Friedman’s passing, the fate of the house was uncertain, and an attempt to acquire a heritage...
View ArticleLORINC: Sidewalk Labs has hit a roadblock
The City of Toronto last week clearly signaled to Waterfront Toronto (WT) that the tripartite development agency drastically overstepped its mandate by entertaining a proposal from New York-based...
View ArticleNotes from Italy
“To make this course of action clear to my French readers, I must explain that in Italy, a country very far away from us, people are still driven to despair by love.” Stendahl Stendahl Syndrome can be...
View ArticleMeet the 2017 Jane Jacobs Prize winners
The Jane Jacobs Prize is an annual award, presented by Spacing, that celebrates individuals who contribute to the fabric of Toronto life in unique ways that exemplify the ideas of Jane Jacobs. The...
View Article50 Objects That Define Toronto: TTC Transfer
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
View ArticleEVENT: Shawn Micallef talks about Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of...
WHAT: Author talk WHERE: Toronto Reference Library main atrium – 789 Yonge St. WHEN: Monday Dec 18th, 7PM-8PM HOW MUCH: Free Spacing senior editor Shawn Micallef will discuss his recent book, Frontier...
View ArticleLORINC: New subway extension overshadows other important transit news
All the hype and posturing that accompanied this weekend’s subway opening effectively obliterated a bit of news about a small transit infrastructure project that will almost certainly be a...
View Article50 Objects That Define Toronto: Banting and Best’s Colorimeter
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
View ArticleBook Review – Rethinking A Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
Author: Eran Ben-Joseph (MIT Press, 2015) Surface parking lots are ever-present in the contemporary city. Moovelab’s incredible visualization project What the Street!? that inventoried parking lots in...
View ArticlePODCAST: Spacing Radio 019, Out In The Cold
In this episode, we speak to Toronto Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam about the desperate call to provide more shelter space this winter. Toronto Park People’s Jake Tobin Garrett tells us about a new park...
View Article50 Objects That Define Toronto: Canister of Pablum
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
View Article50 Objects That Define Toronto: Batteryless Radio
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
View ArticleREAD – Winter 2018 edition of Fife and Drum: Bentway Skate trail opens, the...
The latest edition of Fife and Drum, the quarterly journal produced by the Friends of Fort York, was just released. Here’s some of what you’ll find inside. Bentway Skate Trail Opens @ Fort York on...
View ArticleLORINC: Can John Tory Turn the Page on the Shelter Crisis?
I haven’t observed a political crisis this ripe with potential since that weird interlude during the 2008 credit meltdown when the leaders of the federal Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois suddenly...
View Article50 Objects That Define Toronto: Buried Harbord Street Bridge
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
View ArticleWomen Mobility Survey and #UrbanDesign4Women Twitter Chat
RELEASE: Slow Streets Have you ever wondered if our city streets, mobility networks, and public spaces could be redesigned to enhance the well-being and safety of women and girls? Slow Streets would...
View ArticleBook Review – The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Author: Stefan Al (The MIT Press, 2017) The first time I visited Las Vegas, I was quickly taken aback at the structures. I’d just returned home a week earlier from a trip to the Atacama desert in...
View Article50 Objects That Define Toronto: Macdonald-Cartier Freeway Sign
Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we will be posting a new segment from the series. This week’s object:...
View ArticleBook Review – Destination Architecture
Author: Phaidon Editors (Phaidon Press, 2017) The global perspective provided by this portable book makes it the ideal companion for all travelers who love architecture. It includes work from...
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