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Balancing vibrancy and accessibility: new rules for sidewalk patios
In the current issue of Spacing, I mention sidewalk patios as an example of the dual role of sidewalks, as both a place and a corridor. Patios can have a big impact in creating a sense of place for a...
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Creative Spaces Partnership Exchange
What: Creative Spaces Partnership Exchange When: Monday, November 2 Where: Toronto Centre For The Arts, 5040 Yonge St (Yonge and Sheppard) Cost: This is a free event; register here This Creative...
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Spacing’s Guide to Toronto Events: Oct. 25-Oct 31
SUNDAY Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market Where: Kensington Market (Map) When: Noon-7:00pm What: The monthly event celebrating car-free streets: music, street theatre and more. Cost: Free Link:...
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Message to Trudeau: Voters spoke loud and clear for cities
A month before the election, Calgary’s hugely popular mayor Naheed Nenshi told a reporter: “Whoever gets transit right, whoever figures out how to improve the quality of life for people who live in...
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Critical Elements to Make Pedestrian Streets Work
We currently dedicate an excessive amount of street public space for the movement and storage of automobiles. We can bring dignity to our streets where people live, work and play by reclaiming it for...
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The killing of Aune Newell
She was found beneath a coat hidden under dogwood and sweet clover. Toronto parks department employee Harry Lemon saw her shoe first, carelessly discarded near the shore of Long Pond on Centre Island...
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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy Symposium, Call for Abstracts
Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of Design March 10-12, 2016 | University of British Columbia, Vancouver View the conference website This is a call for...
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On Brampton’s short-sighted Hurontario-Main LRT decision
Cross-posted from Marshall’s Musings, the author’s personal blog On late Tuesday night (actually, early Wednesday morning) Brampton City Council made disappointing and harmful decision by voting...
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Spacing’s Guide to Toronto Events: Nov. 1-6
SUNDAY Roads, Citizen Science and The War on Science Where: Northrop Frye Hall (Map) When: 2:30pm What: An illustrated lecture from ROM biologist Dave Ireland on the relationship between road design...
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LORINC: Spend Brampton LRT money on Queen’s Quay East
When Brampton council voted last week to kill a rapid transit line that would not have cost the city an, um, red cent, one thought sprang immediately to my mind: Hey Metrolinx, give us the dough!...
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Urban forestry and the greening of Canadian cities
Call it the second wave of urban greening: hot on the heels of urban farming, urban forestry is emerging as the new frontier of sustainable urban planning and land use. Canada’s urban forest exists in...
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Overhaul or demolish 24 Sussex?
Much has recently been discussed about the restoration or demolition and replacement of 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. Like many old buildings, this house has asbestos, leaky windows, and a terrifying...
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Enter our draw to go on Lower Bay Station photo tour
WHAT: Photo tour of Lower Bay Station WHEN: Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 WHERE: Lower Bay Station COST: Free DEADLINE FOR DRAW: Wed. Nov. 11 For the first time in our history, Spacing did not host a party for...
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Spacing’s Guide to Toronto Events: Nov. 8-14
TUESDAY Cosmo Gardens as Urbanism Where: 230 College St, Rm. 103 (Map) When: 6:30-8:00pm What: A Kohn Shnier Architects lecture from Andre Jaque, Cost: Free Link: Event Website King of Kensington...
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LORINC: How to invest with Crosstown’s found money
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let’s just rewind a bit, past Wednesday’s Trudeau-palooza, to that interesting little moment last Tuesday when Ontario’s transportation minister Steven Del Duca dropped a...
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The cold war siren system Toronto never used
At Dundas West and Shaw, near Trinity-Bellwoods Park, there’s a conspicuous piece of Canada’s Cold War history. On top of a 15-metre pole sits a massive electric air raid siren. Disconnected long ago,...
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Spacing’s Guide to Toronto Events: Nov. 15-21
SUNDAY The Green Line, Westerly Connection: Cycle/Walk Hydro and Rail Corridors Where: Earlscourt Park, Caledonia and Lansdowne (Map) When: 2:00pm What: A lost rivers walk/cycle Cost: Free WEDENSDAY...
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Getting inspired by public space
It was great to see 200 talented young people in their twenties and thirties gathered together to talk about public space. Earlier this month, I was invited to attend Civic Action‘s Emerging Leaders...
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How to consult in gentrifying neighbourhoods
Every municipal planner knows that when the City convenes a public meeting to consult a community about a proposed project, the people who tend to show up are well-educated, middle-aged, home-owning...
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Book Review: Start-Up City
Author: Gabe Klein (Island Press, 2015) When I was in my second year of University I wrote a blog post that got a lot of (very rare) traction. I pitted the new ride-sharing program Car2Go against...
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