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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 021, Pride & Place
We’re celebrating Black History Month with a special episode. Author and placemaker Jay Pitter is our special guest host, and she introduces us to a number of exceptional Black urbanists in Toronto,...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: The Performance of Revolutionary Feasibility at Nuit Blanche
By: Emily Dickson Talking about revolution can feel futile and racy and urgent and faux pas all at once. Monument to the Century of Revolutions, undoubtedly the most emphatically political...
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Gord Perks’ Twitter thread on Toronto transit
On Tuesday, city councillor Gord Perks posted a Twitter thread that our editors thought would be both insightful and entertaining for our readers. 1. Transit. Politics. Yup, gonna go there. — Gord...
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The wrong answer to a tragic death of a boy walking home from school
On Tuesday, February 27, around 3:30 PM, Duncan Xu, an 11-year old boy, was struck and killed by a motorist in a residential neighbourhood in north Scarborough. He was the tenth pedestrian killed on...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Hurricane Hazel High-water Mark
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 needs a real race for mayor
Doug Ford’s strange weekend victory in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race serves to clarify much of the muddiness that’s swirled around both the major election contests due this...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Hungarian Wooden Platter
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 – Redesigning Gridded Cities: Key Examples
Author: Joan Busquets with Pablo Perez-Ramos, Nikos Katsikis, Christina Crawford, Dingliang Yang (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2016) Former MIT Professor of the renowned Theory of City Form...
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The City of Illusions – Part 1
The distribution of wealth and the shape and form of cities are intimately related. As such, Thomas Picketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty First Century has as much to say about cities and...
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LORINC: Why Sidewalk Toronto needs to consult with you
In the heady days of Toronto’s mid-1980s real estate boom, large parcels of land along the central waterfront began rapidly changing hands in what increasingly looked like a free-for-all. The...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Viljo Revell’s City Hall Model
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 – Chandigarh Revealed: Le Corbusier’s City Today
Author: Shaun Fynn (Princeton Architectural Press (2017) More than sixty-five years have passed since Le Corbusier was commissioned by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to fulfil the role of architect and...
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What a Doug Ford government will do about (or to) transit
In the next few days, work crews will begin tearing up the intersection of Finch Ave. West and Martin Grove — deep in the heart of Ford Nation – in order to shift some buried Enbridge gas lines. This...
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The City of Illusions – Part 2
[Editors Note: This is a the second 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 issues...
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50 Objects That Define Toronto: Caribana Outfits
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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Why regime change doesn’t necessarily mean a swing to the right
In so many ways, Doug Ford’s bluster bus is already the most riveting story of this spring’s election, although his response to yesterday’s Liberal budget was more about waffles than red meat. The...
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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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