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LORINC: In search of clarity on Sidewalk Labs (plus correction)
Before what will be a sold-out house tomorrow night at the St. Lawrence Centre, officials with Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet/Google’s smart city division, will lay out their vision for Quayside, a modestly...
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LORINC: Let’s talk about Sidewalk Labs’ $50 million investment
In May, when Waterfront Toronto (WT) issued the RFP for Quayside that culminated in last month’s agreement with Sidewalk Labs, the agency made no specific stipulations that the successful bidder would...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Fragments of The Temple Building
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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Breaking down barriers in southwest Scarborough
This post by Michelle Kearns is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Michelle is a graduate of U of T’s Master of Science in Planning...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Letter Vouching for William Peyton Hubbard
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: Toronto’s demographics and the 2018 city election
With next year’s municipal vote now less than a year away, the pre-election positioning has begun in earnest – the most recent example being a pitch by the TTC earlier this week to freeze transit...
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My Grandfather Worked Here: The Unilever soap factory in photos and memory
The closed-down Unilever soap factory near the bottom of the Don River has been there since 1890. For ten days in the fall of 2017 it became the sight of EDIT DX, a ten-day exhibition and summit about...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Of Toronto The Good
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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GREENBERG: How Sidewalk Labs could make a vital contribution to Toronto’s...
At a moment when over 80% of Canadians live in city regions, the challenges related to all aspects of achieving a sustainable future are piling up. The good news is that cities are inherently great...
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LORINC: St. Clair Reservoir Toronto’s other ‘palace of water’
Toronto Water’s ongoing efforts to complete a state-of-good-repair overhaul on the St. Clair Reservoir, under Sir Winston Churchill Park, could be described as both monumental and mundane. Monumental,...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: CCM Bicycles
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: Board of Trade pitches myth of free transit
Among all the forms of magical thinking that infect the region’s political culture, none are as pernicious — or persistent — as the myth of free transit. Once every few years, the purveyors of Big...
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Book Review – Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal...
Editor: Stefan Al (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014) Although writing and research on informal settlements has increased significantly over the past decades, works that attempt to accurately capture...
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Meet 2017 Jane Jacobs Prize winners at YIMBY
Spacing is happy to present the 2017 winners of the Jane Jacobs Prize as part of the 10th annual YIMBY Festival. Come out to the ceremony and see which two Torontonians are recognized for their...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 018, The Battle of Portage & Main
In this special episode, we devote our entire time to an issue that’s plagued Winnipeg for nearly 40 years: pedestrians are not allowed to cross the major, iconic intersection of Portage and Main St....
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Computer love: Toronto’s first electronic dates
Bill McNeil and Judy Perry were among the first people ever fixed up by a computer. In 1957, three decades before the first dating websites and 55 years before Tinder, the 33-year-old CBC radio...
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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:...
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Book 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...
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LORINC: 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...
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Notes 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...
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