Politics
Toronto
In Act I, Scene IV of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Marcellus, a guard, renders this famous verdict on his country’s politics: “Something is rotten in the kingdom... Read More
LORINC: Just who is the face of the TTC these days?With apologies to the famously elusive picture book figure, where’s Rick? Increasingly, as the TTC finds itself in a public relations... Read More
LORINC: Council ponders $600 million affordable housing incentiveIt is Toronto’s ur-question, the riddle of riddles, the fodder for a thousand earnest studies. What combination of public policy... Read More
EVENT: SFU City Conversations: Golf Courses or Housing & Parks? – Feb 20thGolf Courses or Housing & Parks WHEN: Thursday, February 20, 2020 – 12:30 – 1:30PM WHERE: SFU Vancouver at Harbour... Read More
The Future Fix Podcast: Disaster dataSpacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE... Read More
Book Review: New Investigations in Collective Form – The Open WorkshopEdited by Neeraj Bhatia – Actar Publishers/CCA Architecture Books (2019) More than fifty years have passed since the publication of... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 043, We are the public realmIn this episode, we talk about public space issues of the past, present, and future. Spacing Publisher Matthew Blackett tells us how... Read More
When Poverty Mattered: The 1970 uprising at the Social Planning CouncilEditor’s note: Excerpted from the book When Poverty Mattered, Then and Now, by Paul Weinberg (Fernwood Publishing, 2019). There... Read More
We have a housing crisis— why aren’t we talking about rent control?In the mad-dash scramble to call out the culprits and cheer on the saviours in Toronto’s ever-accelerating housing crisis, there’s... Read More
Book Review: Soft CityAuthor: David Sim (Island Press, 2019) Bringing the soft back to cities Cities are often caricatured as hard and harsh. Concrete... Read More
Remembering the city-building poet laureateIn 2004, I was introduced to Pier Giorgio DiCicco, then recently unveiled at the City of Toronto’s poet laureate. Little did I... Read More
The delicate dance of governing Sidewalk Lab’s Quayside project 
When do we admit that Toronto’s housing crisis is an emergency? 
A comparative look at Toronto’s CLRVs 
National Housing Innovation event tackles Toronto’s housing affordability crisis 
Embodied carbon and the problem of concrete Toronto 
Metro Vancouver needs a more Multilingual Translink