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LORINC: The vital need to renew Tower Renewal
Almost exactly a year ago, a team of American affordable housing experts from the Urban Land Institute came to Toronto to offer up ideas for breaking the logjam on retrofitting our huge portfolio of...
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The Future Fix: Smart Farms for Northern Communities
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Smart Farms for Northern Communities Food security is a challenge...
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The duality of Amazon in Scarborough – from delivering jobs to packaging...
Amazon’s notoriety for exploitative work conditions, harmful environmental practices, corporate tax exemptions, and stripping jobs away from small community businesses have intensified calls to boycott...
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The City in Sight Podcast: Indigenous Cities
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Indigenous Cities The Indigenous population in urban areas is...
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LORINC: The case for way more electric buses
Two numbers, and a thought experiment. Exhibit A: According to the City’s latest estimates, the cost of the Eglinton East LRT (Kennedy to Malvern) has now doubled, to $4.4 billion – an eye-watering...
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PACKAGED TORONTO: The type of book for font lovers
Packaged Toronto is the newest book from Spacing — it focuses on the graphic design and packaging of products, pulled form the City of Toronto’s museum collection of over 150,000 objects — made in...
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Research Road Redux
During the Second World War, my mother, Louise MacCallum, was among the 7,500 employees of Research Enterprises Limited (REL), a top-secret government-owned manufacturing facility in Leaside that...
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LORINC: The Power of Poop
A month from now, the City, Toronto Western Hospital, and an Enwave spin-off called Noventa Energy will unveil one of those alchemy-like projects that transforms a societal cast-off into modern gold....
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The Bentway: Rethinking public art amidst COVID-19
The publication of the city’s 10-year public art strategy accompanied an announcement that 2021 would be Toronto’s Year of Public Art. Of course, when this initiative was first set forth, no one could...
View ArticleJoe Biden’s unexpected role in the future of Canadian cities
By John Lorinc Spacing Is anyone north of the 49th parallel paying attention to the minutiae of the monster stimulus bills coming out of the White House? Of course not. Despite those trillions,...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 054, Packaged Toronto
To celebrate Spacing‘s latest book, Packaged Toronto: a collection of the city’s historic design, we go deep into the history of early, industrial Toronto, and the graphic design of the era. Spacing...
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LORINC: A drag-net on drag racing?
It’s almost spring and the evenings are getting warmer, which means that on most nights now, but especially weekends, the city’s network of mostly empty main streets will be mutating into a giant,...
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Book Review – Lateness
Written by Peter Eisenman and Elisa Iturbe, Princeton University Press, 2020 In this incisive book, internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman, with Elisa Iturbe, proposes a different...
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Soundscapes on College: This ain’t a library
This article originally appeared in Spacing #14, summer 2009. It was recently announced that the iconic music shop Soundscapes on College Street in Little Italy is closing. It’s a cold Wednesday night...
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The City in Sight Podcast: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change Throughout this...
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Urban space as a catalyst for improving mental health care
This article is published in conjunction with the upcoming issue of Spacing, which is focused on the theme of public health. In these early months of 2021, the world has been enveloped in the fog of...
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LORINC: Which green standard will reduce Toronto’s carbon?
Few would argue that the City of Toronto’s goal of reducing building-related carbon emissions to zero by around 2030 is a worthy, though challenging, goal. Built form, after all, accounts for about...
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Vacant Queen Street West: a pandemic photo essay
Queen Street West has always been a revolving door of independent businesses. Starting at the bottom of Parkdale, Queen Street is an entryway to the downtown core with a colourful mishmash of fabric...
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Poetry in community: Q&A with poet Ronna Bloom
Ronna Bloom is former Poet in Residence at Mount Sinai Hospital, now Sinai Health System. Long before face coverings became mandatory on the TTC or line-ups formed outside of pharmacies, Bloom...
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LORINC: Is the new federal budget green or red?
After the federal Liberals’ $10/day childcare pledge, there’s no doubt that climate spending was the other big political bell-ringer in Monday’s $100 billion federal budget, and not without good...
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