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LORINC: The street art bureaucrat
Away from the clamour surrounding Jennifer Keesmaat’s departure as chief planner, the City of Toronto has seen another significant, although considerably lower profile, exit with the retirement last...
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LORINC: TOCore and Jennifer Keesmaat’s legacy
Since the City announced chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat’s departure last week, much of the commentary about her stint in that high profile gig has focused on negatives: how she wasn’t able to block...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Proclamation for William Lyon Mackenzie’s...
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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John Graves Simcoe’s weird relationship with slavery
Meet John Graves Simcoe. Founder of Toronto. British veteran of the American Revolution. And an avowed abolitionist with a very weird and complicated relationship to slavery. Simcoe hated it. Back...
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The parking garage of the future!
In the 1950s and 60s, Toronto, like cities all over the world, struggled with challenges delivered by the rise of the private automobile. For the first time, tens of thousands of cars were descending...
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LORINC: The unnecessary return of Doug Ford
Give Doug Ford this much: one has to admire, in a grudging way, someone with the sheer lack of self-awareness required to believe that Torontonians are clamouring for a Trumpian mayor after four years...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: William Davies Company’s St. Lawrence Market...
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Book Review – Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Author: Eyal Weizman (MIT Press, 2017) I was as surprised as anybody: consoling a number of design students in the foyer of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) after spending three hours...
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The tragic final days of Lucy Maud Montgomery
This is where Lucy Maud Montgomery died: the house she called Journey’s End. It’s on Riverside Drive in Swansea: the west end of Toronto. Montgomery spent her last decade living here, perched high...
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Book Review – Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
Author: Hugh Howard (Bloomsbury Press, 2016) In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Bottle of Gooderham and Worts Rye Whisky
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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EVENT: 2017 Toronto the Good party + public lecture by Doug Saunders
WHAT: Annual Toronto the Good party + public lecture by Doug Saunders WHERE: Evergreen Brickworks WHEN: Thursday October 5, 2017 — 5:30PM-11PM COST: Free HOW: Register here Toronto the Good is back,...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: 1856 Panorama by Armstrong, Beere, and Hime
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: When “Friends of” park groups aren’t so friendly to outsiders
My inbox has been filling up all summer and into this balmy fall with the righteous indignation of two well-heeled neighbourhood groups whose members profess to be defending the ecological integrity...
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The North Market and what Toronto can learn from Barcelona’s El Born
Part of a mayor’s job is to build the city, even as he takes care with taxpayers’ money. John Tory has an opportunity to add a big brick for modest cost if he can see his way back to investing in a...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 016, the Racist Roots of Canadian Cities
In this episode, we speak to Toronto Dreams Project founder Adam Bunch, who took a tour this summer of Toronto’s problematic landmarks. We also ask him about his latest work, the “Toronto Book of the...
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LORINC: Rob Ford drove his reputation into the ground
On October 2, 2013 – exactly, as it happens, four years ago today – a certain Detective Constable Khoshbooi, of the Toronto Police Service, swore an information to obtain search warrant, a 474-page...
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Film Review: BIG Time
Director: Kaspar Astrup Schröder Not often does Spacing have the opportunity to review a movie receiving its North American premier, including an interview with the film’s director, but such has been...
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EVENT: Spacing is having a combined magazine and book release party
WHEN: Tuesday, October 10th, 7:30pm-11pm WHERE: Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm St. (2 blocks north of Yonge & Dundas) COST: event is free / mag $5 / book $10 LINK: RSVP on Facebook if you wish If...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Painting of Rolling Mills
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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