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Lost and found in the PATH: the case for new wayfinding
This summer, a pilot project will be launched to test a new wayfinding system in the PATH — Toronto’s subterranean navigation-slash-commercial network of tunnels, shops, and food courts. The system,...
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The Brain Project hits Toronto’s streets
Charlie Pachter is a butter tart fan. Actually, calling him a fan is probably understating it. He loves the things. Pachter, who once met Queen Elizabeth II after painting her on a moose (a piece that...
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The twisted myth of car ownership in Scarborough
This post by Trudy Ledsham, is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Trudy is a researcher for both the Toronto Cycling Think & Do...
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Book Review – Planning Canada: A Case Study Approach
Editor: Ren Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2016) One of the easiest ways to learn something is by seeing how it was done before, somewhere else, with a similar context. We can understand abstract...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Garden of Future Follies – An Interview with Hadley+Maxwell
Interview by: Melanie Fasche Hadley+Maxwell are a Canadian artist duo formed in Vancouver in 1997 and now based in Berlin. Their body of work includes installations, performances and writings that...
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How co-housing designs community into developments
For a lot of city dwellers, knowing their neighbors names is a rarity, let alone knocking on their door to ask to borrow an egg or a cup of sugar. Co-housing could cure this household isolation by...
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Book Review: Citizen City
Edited by Robert Enright (Blueimprint Publishers, 2016) “The projects compiled in this book are the culmination of over 25 years of architectural experimentation, which stand firmly with the...
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LORINC: Turning the Hearn into a generator of culture
This weekend, Jorn Weisbrodt, Luminato’s outgoing artistic director, watched the proverbial curtain rise on what will, in all likelihood, be his most audacious creation at the helm of a festival...
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EVENT: Launch of Spacing’s first book “50 Objects That Define Toronto”
BOOK LAUNCH for SPACING’S “50 OBJECTS THAT DEFINE TORONTO” WHEN: Tuesday, June 28th, 6:30-9:30pm WHERE: Fort York Visitor Centre (250 Fort York Blvd.) COST: Event is free, book sold for $10 FACEBOOK:...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 001 with Janette Sadik-Khan
Welcome to the return of Spacing Radio, a monthly podcast that uncovers Toronto and Canadian urbanism. In episode 001, we sit down with Denise Pinto, director of Jane’s Walk, and discuss the #Jane100...
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How City Hall ended up on St. Clair Avenue
In the late 1940s, Toronto City Hall was bursting at the seams. Now known as Old City Hall, the building on the northeast corner of Queen and Bay streets was approaching 50 years old and becoming...
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LORINC: A city that doesn’t learn from transit mistakes
How many times do we have to bang our heads against the wall before we finally get the message? Apparently, based on Friday’s little news nugget about the Scarborough subway’s inflated cost, that...
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Is new police report real transformation or just new packaging?
Last week, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) jointly released an interim report from the Transformational Task Force – a group made of up citizens and...
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Book Review: Wild By Design
Author: Margie Ruddick (Island Press, 2016) Wild By Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes recounts the work of Margie Ruddick’s self-named firm over the last 20 years, by sorting a...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: Measuring ‘Success’ Through Policy?
By Yvonne Monestier Much has been written about public art policies as a useful tool for developing and promoting artistic excellence. The question remains, however, are formal policies really the...
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How Toronto built the CN Tower
The CN Tower is one of the most important buildings ever constructed in Canada. Like it or loathe it, the absurd, 553-metre concrete tower, which opened to the public 40 years ago this Sunday, is the...
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BOOK LAUNCH: Spacing’s “50 Objects That Define Toronto”
BOOK LAUNCH for SPACING’S “50 OBJECTS THAT DEFINE TORONTO” WHEN: Tuesday, June 28th, 6:30-9:30pm WHERE: Fort York Visitor Centre (250 Fort York Blvd.) COST: Event is free, book sold for $10 FACEBOOK:...
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Canadian judge acknowledges anti-black racism in court
A Toronto judge has made history by explicitly considering anti-black racism as a mitigating factor in sentencing a young drug offender. Rather than receiving a year in jail as the Crown had wished...
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Book Review – Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
Authors: Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Reflecting on the history of humankind, one is hard-pressed to find a form of graphic representation more influential...
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Why did John Tory play the race card in transit politics?
In a moment of complete candor, Mayor John Tory implied in a Toronto Star op-ed on Monday that critics of the Scarborough subway are anti-immigrant —in effect, introducing a racist spotlight in a...
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