Culture Toronto

THOMPSON: What if the Caribana Carnival went back to its roots?

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“The watching Torontonians didn’t cheer, didn’t wave,” reported the Toronto Daily Star on August 5, 1967, as “Caribana” left Varsity... Read More

Architecture

Book Review: The Architecture of Trees

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Authors: Cesare Leonardi & Franca Stagi (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019)  In Italy, most architects know this book and have... Read More

Features Vancouver

Book Review – Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future

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Author: Kirkpatrick Sale (Chelsea Green, 2017) Reading Human Scale Revisited by Kirkpatrick Sale from Athens, Greece during a global... Read More

Podcast Toronto

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 048, Safety and wellbeing in Edmonton

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In this episode, Natasha Henry, president of the Ontario Black History Society, tells us about the importance of August 1st... Read More

Services Toronto

Why is City of Toronto sole-sourcing key digital infrastructure?

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Toronto City Council is set to vote this week on a staff recommendation to sole-source a contract for a technology system. The... Read More

History Toronto

Apology, Truth, and Reparations: The overdue reckoning with Canada’s slave past

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This essay is a sequel to Natasha Henry’s account of the history of enslavement of Black people in Canada prior to 1834, published in... Read More

Politics Toronto

The connections between public art and activism

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In this moment of social and political upheaval, as protesters demand racial justice in response to police brutality and systemic... Read More

Housing Toronto

REID: Examples of east side gentle density

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One of the things I started looking out for on my local walks during the our locked-down pandemic spring (in addition to former corner... Read More

Podcast

The Future Fix: Safe Streets

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Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE... Read More

Architecture

Book Review: Draw In Order To See

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Author: Mark Hewitt (ORO Editions, 2020) Visualizing one’s ideas is a well known standard in the design fields. Thinking visually is... Read More

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