Green Space
PODCAST: Election Panel with Lorraine Lam and John Lorinc
By Spacing Radio
As Toronto gets ready to vote, we are bringing you regular panel discussions with journalists and experts who will break down the... Read More
Shifting power in parks: Lessons from the 2022 Canadian City Parks Report
By Jake Tobin Garrett
City parks are built on relationships. They are where we go to feel more connected to nature, to ourselves, and to others in our... Read More
Broadway Plan Reflections
By Erick Villagomez
This piece started with a simple aspiration: to collect a diversity of meaningful 100-200 word reflections on Broadway Plan processes... Read More
Ontario Place re-development: Paving over paradise
By Francesca Bouaoun
Looking out to Lake Ontario in late March, when the ground is still thawing from winter, a daring aerialist deftly skims the water’s... Read More
VIDEO: Why does the Vancouver Plan matter to you?
By Yuri Artibise
On July 22, 2022, Vancouver City Council approved the Vancouver Plan, a citywide land use strategy to create a more livable... Read More
Eight simple ways to cool a city
By Todd Irvine
It continues to get hotter in Toronto, with summer temperatures in the high 30s becoming common. We must make immediate changes to our... Read More
Growing the urban forest in the face of climate change
By Todd Irvine
Todd Irvine is an arborist (cityforest.ca) and a co-founder of Spacing. This article is reprinted from issue 58 of the magazine. For... Read More
WHY WE CAN’T GO: Debunking the Costs of Operating Public Washrooms, pt. 3
By John Lorinc
Parks Forestry and Recreation (PFR), according to City of Toronto data, operates over 1,500 parks, nearly 700 sports fields, 123... Read More
Why We Can’t Go: City Flushes Time Away, pt. 2
By John Lorinc
Anyone who spends time in cities, and not just Toronto, likely has both a mental map as well as a strategy for finding a place to go... Read More
LORINC: Highway 413 and Doug Ford’s tactical whataboutism
By John Lorinc
Going in to this election, did anyone really expect that it would come to focus so intensively on that great big ribbon of blacktop... Read More