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PODCAST: Election Panel with Lorraine Lam and John Lorinc
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we are bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will break down the candidates, platforms, and issues that will shape our city for the next...
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ELECTION: Beware of what you wished for
The outcome, at least on the mayoral vote, was not ambiguous: Mayor John Tory, campaigning — if that’s how his performance in the past month or so could be described — on a more-of-the-same platform,...
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LORINC: Who is behind the Therme Group, the spa company redeveloping Ontario...
When Sidewalk Labs rolled into Toronto in 2017, there was no ambiguity about the corporate family tree. Sidewalk officials repeatedly said the smart city start-up venture was a kind of mash-up:...
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The Future Fix: Digital Placemaking
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Digital Placemaking Data and technology allow placemakers to...
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REID: The Jenga school of civic management
For some years, I worked for an organization that practiced what I came to think of as the Jenga school of management. The organization loved to hire prestigious new employees, set up...
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LORINC: Will Toronto defend its rental replacement law from Doug Ford?
In the late 1990s, then St. Paul’s West councillor Joe Mihevc took up the cause of several hundred tenants, many of them seniors, living in two apartment buildings on Tweedsmuir Ave., overlooking the...
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LORINC: Paul Bedford on what happens next with the Ontario Place redevelopment
In the days immediately following the municipal election, the second round of public consultations on the revitalization, so-called, of Ontario Place. A provincial website, Engage Ontario Place, seems...
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EVENT: “Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto” book launch at...
WHAT: Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto book launch WHERE: Spacing Store, 401 Richmond St. W. WHEN: Thursday, November 24th at 6:30pm Join Dr. Brian Doucet, author of Streetcars and...
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“The Signs That Define Toronto”, a new book from Spacing and ERA Architects
Spacing is happy to announce the release of our eleventh book, The Signs That Define Toronto. Published in partnership with ERA Architects, Spacing’s Matthew Blackett teams up with ERA partner Philip...
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Measuring Toronto’s unsafe construction zones
Prior to this September’s return to school, Mayor John Tory announced that the City of Toronto will be doubling down on its construction-related road closure audits to ensure contractors abide by the...
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Will Bill 23 kill heritage protections?
The Ontario government has proposed new legislation called the More Homes, Built Faster Act (Bill 23). But I’d prefer an act called More Affordable Homes, Built Faster and Better. The legislation...
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LORINC: What the Unfair Mayor System could look like in practice
Late last week, after the Ontario government revealed that it was bulking up mayoral veto powers for the cities of Toronto and Ottawa, John Tory disclosed that he’d asked for the additional muscle —...
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ELECTION: Mapping how Toronto voted
In the lead-up to last month’s municipal election, news reporters, columnists, and popular local websites called the mayoral race “dull,” “boring,” or “quiet.” In some regards, it was, and that is how...
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How activists saved Toronto’s streetcars 50 years ago this month
While Toronto had the largest streetcar fleet in North America in the late 1960s, TTC planners and management were focused on abandoning the remainder of the network, as was happening in big cities...
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Midtown Toronto’s much-loved, largest green space re-opens – after $35...
David A. Balfour Park, midtown Toronto’s largest public green space, has finally re-opened after being closed for infrastructure repairs and upgrades since April 2018, shutting off residents from 20...
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Photographing Toronto’s suburban strip malls
With an essay by Orly Linovski. A documentary project focused exclusively on the architecture of suburban strip malls: this idea occurred to me while I was researching archival photos for my 2020...
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LORINC: Toronto’s development charge showdown is a distraction
As the battle over Bill-23 — a.k.a. the “More Housing Bigger Profits Act” — rumbled towards its inevitable conclusion yesterday, the central point of contention finally came into sharp focus. It...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 068, Looking for the bright side of Toronto’s election
We’ve had some time to make sense of the Toronto election, and what it might mean for the next four years in this city. Is there a silver lining to be found? Is Toronto due for another urbanist...
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Beaches historical sight: East of Silver Birch
Toronto historian Richard White has recently completed an original new history of the Beaches neighbourhood that should be out and available sometime next year (U of T Press). As a pre-publication...
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LORINC: 10 questions about the Ontario Place redevelopment
At some point this week, City officials will upload the Ford government’s zoning bylaw amendment application for the Ontario Place redevelopment to the Toronto planning portal (search “955 Lakeshore...
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