Spacing Toronto

Predictions for Toronto in 2033

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At our recent 15th anniversary party we asked people to tell us a prediction about Toronto in 2033. Here’s a selection of them. Read More

Spacing Vancouver

Event: Life Between Umbrellas Design Competition

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Vancouver receives the equivalent of over five months of rainy weather a year. How can our public spaces better respond to the wet... Read More

Events Vancouver

Event: Jane’s Walk festival, May 3-5

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Jane’s Walk is a movement of free, citizen-led walking tours inspired by urban enthusiast, Jane Jacobs. We’re hoping you’ll lead... Read More

Politics Toronto

LORINC: How to reframe Toronto’s 2020 budget debate

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I imagine Mayor John Tory, like all good conservatives of his generation and breeding, worshipped at the alter of Michael Wilson, the... Read More

Urban Design

Book Review – Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

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Author:  Jeff Speck (Island Press, 2018) When I reviewed Walkable City, the precursor to this book by Jeff Speck in 2013, I was in a... Read More

History Toronto

Stories, Struggles and Song: Cantonese Opera in Toronto

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Cantonese opera is in my genes. Whenever my mother put me and my two younger sisters down for our afternoon nap, she’d crank up the... Read More

Architecture

Book Review – Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures

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Author: Weiss/Manfredi– Princeton Architectural Press (2018) In considering the evolution of ecological, urban, and social... Read More

Urban Design Toronto

How city hall is keeping needed change out of ‘stable neighbourhoods’

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Item: In a development application [download PDF] heard by the Etobicoke-York district committee of adjustment in late February, a... Read More

Housing Vancouver

Uh oh. I’m a Planner and Planning Makes Housing More Expensive

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Thank Andy Yan for throwing yet another rock into the placid pond of our taken for granted assumptions. As someone who advocates... Read More

Walking Edmonton

Walkcast: Why walking in winter sucks

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Editor’s Note: Spacing is delighted to share the Walkcast podcast series out of Edmonton. Check out the latest episode today. As... Read More

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