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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 7
Time and the City: A Living City-wide Plan We’ve come a long way in addressing the many challenges associated with city-wide planning, but the issue of time deserves further elaboration. When I...
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How to build a low-rise apartment building
If you’re in the Bloor and Dufferin neighbourhood a couple of summers from now and happen to head north on Dufferin, just past the subway station, you’ll be greeted by a couple of apartment buildings...
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Book Review – Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities
Author: Vaclav Smil (MIT Press, 2019) There are few terms as pervasive in discussions about contemporary cities than “growth”. It monopolizes debates around everything, from economics and population,...
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Spacing’s Tactical Urbanism workshop
WHEN: Friday, September 27th, 9am-4:30pm WHERE: 197 Spadina Avenue, Lake Ontario Room, 5th Floor COST: $125 for professionals, $50 for students (five spots available) LINK: Buy your ticket now at The...
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Planning City-Wide: A Primer – Part 8
By Way of Conclusions We’ve come a long way, covering a lot of meaningful ground around the city-wide planning process. Like Lynch over half a century ago, however, we aren’t really any close to...
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LORINC: Is Toronto one small step closer to finding the missing middle?
At last week’s Toronto Urban Design Awards, Mayor John Tory announced that the City will launch an “ideas competition” meant to generate “new options” for potential missing middle, low-rise housing...
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Book Review: Design Process in Architecture – From Concept to Completion
Geoffrey Makstutis – Laurence King Publishing (2018) This book will be particularly useful for those who are considering – or are in their first year of – studying architecture. Because of the nature...
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What other cities can learn from Toronto’s ride-hailing experience
With British Columbia rolling out its ride-hailing regulations in August, Toronto City Council re-examining its bylaws, and Halifax looking to do the same, it seems like a good time to dive in on what...
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How long will ride-hailing apps last?
Part two of Nick’s look at the state of ride hailing. Read part one here. It has been almost ten years since Uber was founded in San Francisco. In 2011, saw their first services and app launched, which...
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The missing middle and the case for density transition zones
Over the past 20 years, Toronto has grown by over 500,000 people, even as its neighbourhoods have hollowed-out, with the loss of over 200,000 residents. This dynamic has led to the closure of schools...
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The Future Fix Podcast: How Innisfil is using Uber as public transit
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. In our first episode, we explore the unique relationship between the town of...
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LORINC: Greta dared all of us to do better. Now what?
In the aftermath of last week’s heady and inspiring climate marches, everyone who’s concerned about global warming should be asking themselves: what next? Greta Thunberg threw down a giant gauntlet....
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 039, How I Spent Doug Ford’s Summer Vacation
We begin this month by tuning in to the wonderfully named Special Committee on Governance, which was created to find ways to adjust to the changes imposed on Toronto City Council in the middle of last...
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Book Review: Small Cities, Big Issues – Reconceiving Community in a...
Edited by Christopher Walmsley and Terry Kading (Athabasca University Press, 2018) In this collection, we reveal the broader forms of discrimination and social exclusion evident in local attitudes,...
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Is John Tory’s Housing Now plan crumbling?
In the fall of 2018, Toronto Mayor John Tory promised to deliver 40,000 new units of affordable-housing over the next 12-years. A year later, and almost one quarter of the way through this Council’s...
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Why Toronto’s approach to Vision Zero isn’t making streets safer
On August 30, Celeste Jones became the 28th person to be killed on Toronto’s streets after she was struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing a suburban arterial to reach the bus stop, highlighting...
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Connecting the dots of Nuit Blanche and Toronto Biennial
It’s an exciting time for Toronto. There is a sense of possibility that has always been here but is now manifesting in tangible ways. New models of relationality and connectivity are emerging that have...
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ELECTION: City issues were ignored in the leadership debate. Why?
If one applied the blink test to last night’s leaders’ debate, it would be fair to say that the most audible message to waft out of the dreary two-hour contest was that Canada needs to address climate...
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Spacing School of Urbanism workshop: DIGITAL CITIES
WHEN: October 25, 2019 WHERE: 197 Spadina Avenue, Lake Ontario Room, 5th floor COST: $125 TICKETS: Buy at the Spacing Store online shop Depending on who you listen to, smart / digital cities are either...
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ELECTION: Is it time to establish an all-party cabinet committee to address...
Earlier this month, Toronto council unanimously endorsed a motion, moved by Mayor John Tory and University-Rosedale councillor Mike Layton, to declare a climate emergency and accelerate the city’s...
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