Housing Toronto

LORINC: How reducing development charges will spur the ‘missing middle’

By

While city council tries to figure out how to confront a made-in-Toronto housing affordability crisis, Ontario’s Progressive... Read More

Features Vancouver

Redesigning Cities to Support Seniors Stuck in Suburban Sprawl

By

Rasiklal Joshi never took the bus. He always drove — until he reached his 80s and his doctor told him to stop. “I tried to persuade my... Read More

Film & Video Vancouver

Video Vancouver: Delft – spoor en centrum

By

Via small places: It’s been said that the Netherlands is both a dense country and a sprawling city, but neither is quite right... Read More

Film & Video Vancouver

Video Vancouver: What is Zoning?

By

Produced by the City of Vancouver Regulation Redesign Project Team Read More

Housing Toronto

LORINC: Will this council actually fix Toronto’s housing crisis?

By

If you did the blink test on last fall’s municipal election (disregarding all the static created by Doug Ford’s intervention), it... Read More

Politics Vancouver

How a Smart, Progressive Property Tax Could Ease Our Housing Crisis

By

Guest author: Patrick Condon Does Vancouver need a new kind of tax on land? City council thinks it might, so has asked city staff to... Read More

Toronto

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 030, Toronto 2033 – Stories

By

To celebrate Spacing‘s 15th anniversary, and the launch of “Toronto 2033: 10 short stories about the city’s... Read More

Culture Toronto

Life on the Line: Light in the Tunnel

By

                                                                        (Alex Garant, “Midnight”) By Sarah Ratzlaff For... Read More

Transit Toronto

Is good regional transit planning impossible?

By

Image: Christof Spieler, Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of U.S. Transit, Island Press. The recent news from Vancouver is... Read More

Civic Engagement Vancouver

SURVEY: What were Vancouver’s Planning & Development Milestones of 2018?

By

As 2018 draws to a close, the Vancouver City Planning Commission (VCPC) Chronology Program  is embarking on our annual retrospective... Read More

Featured Writers