Green Space
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
EXCERPT: The Islands In My Brain, from “I Own This Town” by Mayor Bert Xanadu
By Mayor Bert Xanadu
“I Own This Town” is a Toronto-centric collection of essays, screeds, proclamations, asides, orders, observations... Read More
Taking Us Where The Sun Don’t Shine – The Broadway Plan
By grahammcgarva
Why bother? The survey flashes across your horizon suggesting a moment of importance. You click on the survey and give your opinion... Read More
From Seeds to Saplings: New outreach to help promote growth of native trees
By Val Masters
It started as an ordinary walk through a downtown ravine. Five years later, we are running around the city, doling out thousands of... Read More
The Meadoway: Realizing the power of connectivity
By Shawn Micallef
This article was first published in November in the Park People “10 Years Together in City Parks” series, and is... Read More
‘Most Livable City?’ A 30-Year Gap in Life Expectancy Exists Within Vancouver
By Christopher Cheung
Live in Vancouver? Then you’ve seen those annual rankings that celebrate it as one of the world’s “most livable cities.” But zoom in... Read More