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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 022, Visioning
In this episode, we talk about imaging what we want our city to be. We speak to Jason Thorne, general manager of planning and economic development for the City of Hamilton, about a proposed plan for...
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The City of Illusions – Part 3
[Editors Note: This is a the third and final part in a series that seeks to connect the insights of Thomas Picketty’s well-known book Capital in the Twenty First Century to contemporary city-building...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Maple Leafs’ 1967 Stanley Cup Ring
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:...
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The next steps for the Toronto Museum
Co-authored with Claire Nelischer After years of deliberation and many unrealized plans, the City is finally set to establish Toronto’s first city museum. City council voted in January to approve range...
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We’re looking for creative mappers!
Back in 2012, we ran one of our most popular cover sections in Spacing magazine’s history: creative mapping. For our summer 2018 edition, we want to bring it back! We’re calling all visual map-makers...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Spadina Expressway 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:...
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REID: The Unilever lands and housing
The Unilever Precinct (also sometimes called “East Harbour”) is a large district of Toronto ready for development east of downtown, across the Don River. The area, once a soap factory, is zoned...
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Athletic traffic planning: Moving thousands of fans on game day
When the Leafs or Blue Jays play a home game, Doug Tuira doesn’t watch to see if Auston Matthews will score an overtime winner or Roberto Osuna will close out the ninth inning. The Metrolinx Control...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Blue Box
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:...
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LORINC: Sidewalk Toronto hires a fixer
Has the outfit that promised to build a waterfront community from the Internet up decided that it needs a reboot, or at least an installation of the latest upgrade? Late last week, The Globe and...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: CN Tower Whisky Bottle
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: CN...
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What Airbnb is doing to Toronto’s rental apartment market
As housing prices continue to soar in major cities across the world, Airbnb’s profits are following suit. This is not a coincidence. In fact, my own research into the rise of digital short-term rental...
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REID: Hi-Lo-rise infill buildings
Amidst the discussion of the potential and challenges of building new mid-rise buildings to increase density along Toronto’s main streets outside the core, it might be worth paying attention to a...
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The roots of Doug Ford’s white saviour complex
Race can be an awkward topic of discussion, especially if raised by a Black person. In this instance, some people can interpret the topic as a personal attack, i.e. Jeanne Beker versus Jully Black on...
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The “trophy of war” the US took from Toronto
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fort York’s most tenacious and devoted champion, Stephen A. Otto, died earlier this week after a long illness. Spacing‘s readers will know that he was a great friend of the magazine, as...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 023, Winning Women
If you can read this, the 2018 Toronto election has begun! Toronto City Council has a problem when it comes to gender parity and diversity. Women Win Toronto is hoping to change that. We speak to...
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LORINC: Walking in the shadow of Yonge Street attack
There’s a lot of talk these days — on Spacing and elsewhere — about “messy urbanism.” But if you want to understand what this evocatively gritty phrase truly means, leave the coolster worlds of...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Scarborough RT opening day button
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:...
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Book Review – Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Author: Reinier de Graaf (Harvard University Press, 2017) Architecture is a strange discipline, full of contradictions: it is at once simple and complex, ordinary and extraordinary. On the one hand,...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: In The Skin Of A Lion
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: In...
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