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2016 Heritage Toronto Awards
The Heritage Toronto Awards celebrate outstanding contributions in the promotion and conservation of Toronto’s history and heritage by professionals and volunteers. The winners were announced on...
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REID: Dissecting the pedestrian countdown
The most important thing to realize about the pedestrian countdown signal is that it is only relevant to people who start crossing after the “flashing hand” has begun. In other words, its existence...
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Book Reviews From The Stacks – Snøhetta Works
Editors: Snøhetta (Lars Müller Publishing – 2009) These projects and descriptions together have been selected to show the wide range, at times informal directions, and sheer energy of some of...
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Bonnie Crombie vs Mississauga’s race-baiters: Are symbolic gestures enough?
Earlier this month, Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie was lauded for standing up against racism for the second time in a year. On Sunday Oct. 9, she filed a hate hate-crime complaint with Peel police...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: An Interview with Public Art Management
Interview by: Ilana Altman Public Art Management (PAM) is one of Canada’s leading public art consulting firms. They have been actively curating and managing projects across the country for the last 30...
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When will Toronto love its Modern architecture?
What do you picture when you read the words “heritage building.”? It probably isn’t the Carlton Tower at Yonge and Carlton streets. The 18-storey office building was completed in 1958 in a Modern style...
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LORINC: Why developing the Lower Don is a century-defining opportunity
Ever since then-Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney appointed David Crombie to head up a royal commission on the future of Toronto’s waterfront, way back in the late 1980s following...
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Book Review: The City That Never Was
Author: Christopher Marcinkoski (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) The world captured within The City That Never Was by Christopher Marcinkoski reminds me very much of a JG Ballard novel titled...
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SASKATOON: Prairie city chooses city-builder as mayor
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the spring of 2013, Spacing profiled Saskatoon city councillor Charlie Clark in our national edition. He had caught our eye for taking a strong interest in public realm and...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 005, Shake It Up
This is the companion episode to the latest issue of Spacing Magazine, with a focus on celebrating women in city building. We talk to Pamela Robinson, associate dean, graduate studies and special...
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LORINC: Tip of the City’s financial iceberg
Those grinding and rattling sounds you’ve been hearing in recent weeks could have come from a pre-Halloween party, but the source of the clamour has been even scarier for jumpy mid-term politicians:...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Public Art Doesn’t Have to be Forever
By: Rebecca Carbin Previous Artful City posts chronicle recent developments and historical perspectives on the public art landscape in Toronto, providing fantastic insight for those interested. The...
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NEW ISSUE: Come to Spacing’s release party Nov 17 at The Gladstone
WHAT: Release party for Fall 2016 issue of Spacing WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 17, 7pm-11pm WHERE: Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar, 1214 Queen St W (just east of Queen & Dufferin) COST: $10 for mag, $5 for...
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Bikes and Belonging: helping Toronto feel like home
Photo by Esmaeel: “I want to explore Toronto. I wanted to get quickly adjusted with Toronto and the lifestyle. I want it to feel like home.” This post by Yvonne Verlinden is part of Spacing’s...
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LORINC: Can City Council avoid the white elephant in the room?
While Toronto’s politicians have yet to turn their collective attention to the question of whether the city needs new revenue tools to address growing capital and operating shortfalls, this most...
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Book Review: Where We Want to Live—Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New...
Author: Ryan Gravel (St. Martin’s, 2016) It is not often that a graduate school project turns into a best selling book, let alone a transformative infrastructure projects that is reshaping a large...
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The story behind the first computer in Canada
In 1949, a team of professors and graduate students at the University of Toronto began building a machine no-one in Canada, and few in the world, had ever seen before. The University of Toronto...
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LORINC: Trump-proofing Canadian communities
Amidst the miasma of grief and bewilderment that engulfed the past week, I have found myself pondering the question: are we vulnerable, and if so, how? Certainly, Conservative leadership hopeful...
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Realizing the untapped potential of Canada’s city parks
Spacing is a media partner of Canada’s first national conference on city parks, hosted by Park People, in 2017 in Calgary. Parks make our cities more livable and lovable. They are a critical element of...
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SPACING PARTY! Come out on Thursday to celebrate the new issue!
WHAT: Release party for Fall 2016 issue of Spacing WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 17, 7pm-11pm WHERE: Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar, 1214 Queen St W (just east of Queen & Dufferin) COST: $10 for mag, $5 for...
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