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VIDEO: How Driverless Cars will Change Cities
Why some say driverless cars won’t just change the way we commute, but the way we live. (via CBC | The National) The post VIDEO: How Driverless Cars will Change Cities appeared first on Spacing...
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LORINC: What if City Council actually talked about buses?
Bad choices beget more bad choices. If I lie on a government form, I will almost inevitably have to dissemble more in order to ensure the continued viability of the original lie. If I buy a luxury car...
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Toronto’s history in two buildings
Back in May and June of 2015, the Guardian newspaper ran an intriguing series on its Cities page entitled “A history of cities in 50 buildings.” The list is quite interesting: it includes several...
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MESLIN: While other cities embrace street murals, Toronto staff reject it
It’s been seven months since I wrote about the Regal Heights street mural, a community-driven art project painted by neighbours of all ages on Springmount Avenue. Despite half a year of rain, traffic...
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LORINC: Which track is Smart Track on?
One of the enduring features of Toronto’s so-called transit debate is the uneven and treacherous information terrain that ordinary citizens are forced to navigate if they aspire to crazy goals, such...
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Pour one out for the Toronto Coach Terminal
For an busy intercity transit hub in a major North American city, the Toronto Coach Terminal is a sorry sight. Marooned a significant distance from the city’s main railway station, disconnected from...
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LORINC: All the evidence points to more stalling
And lo, after the people of the town had spent these six long years wandering blindly in a stormy and seemingly ceaseless night, a young messenger named Oliver ran breathless into the town square,...
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Toronto’s most deadly disaster: the nightmare on the SS Noronic
It was late. The Noronic was quiet. The ship was docked at the foot of Yonge Street, gently rocking in the dark waves. Almost everyone on board was already fast asleep. It was two-thirty in the...
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The independent Toronto Republic of Rathnelly
To celebrate the Centennial, on Saturday, June 10, 1967, the roughly 400 residents of Rathnelly Ave. and several nearby streets decided to quit Toronto and Canada. The Toronto Star broke word of the...
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Do you have to shovel your sidewalk?
In the City of Toronto, the city will clear some local sidewalks when it snows a certain amount, but other people are required to shovel their sidewalk whenever it snows (unless they are part of the...
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The Artful City
The Artful City is a bi-weekly blog series exploring the evolution of public art and its role in the transformation of Toronto, both the city fabric and the community it houses. By: Ilana Altman On...
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SPACING: Come to our release party Feb. 17th!
WHAT: Release party for Winter 2016 issue of Spacing WHEN: Wed. Feb. 17, 7pm-11pm WHERE: 610 Markham St., one block from Bathurst & Bloor COST: free! (mag costs $5) LINK: Feel free to RSVP on...
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The challenge of getting to the bus stop
Adapted from a post in Marshall’s Musings, the author’s personal blog. In the Greater Toronto Area, we have a fixation on building transit, especially subways, but we’re less interested in transit...
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Cars are part of the mix in Kensington Market
One of the first areas I take people when they visit Toronto is usually Kensington Market – that dense grid of narrow streets stuffed with fruit and veggie stores, cafes, colourful vintage shops, and...
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LORINC: How the City plans to pay for services in the future
The 2016 budget debate, which lands today at executive committee after doing the usual rounds, has offered up a curious mix of urgency and its opposite. On the one hand, Mayor John Tory and city...
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Name your best public make-out space and win film tickets!
Spacing has a little cameo in the incredibly funny lesbian romantic comedy Portrait of a Serial Monogamist opening in Toronto on Feb 12th at the Carlton Cinema. You can see the clip below. You can win...
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Travel in Nunatsiavut, Labrador is a little different
Travelling in the winter can be a pain, it’s also just part of being Canadian. While we complain about winter driving and delayed flights, in most of Canada, year round travel and freedom of movement...
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The night Neil Young was conceived
It was the last winter of the Second World War. 1945. The first week of February. Far away in Europe, the Nazis were crumbling: the Soviets were closing in on Berlin; the Americans would soon be...
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LORINC: Tell me how Toronto will pay for transit plans — then I’ll get excited
A few years ago, University of Toronto Schools teacher Josh Fullan and I concocted a transit game for the students in his Maximum City program. Each group gets $15 billion and this task: spend the...
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Come to our release party tonight!
WHAT: Release party for Winter 2016 issue of Spacing WHEN: TONIGHT! 7pm-11pm WHERE: 610 Markham St., one block from Bathurst & Bloor COST: free! (mag costs $5) LINK: Feel free to RSVP on Facebook...
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