History
LORINC: The digs of R.C. Harris
By John Lorinc
Anyone venturing by the Queen Street side of Old City Hall in the past couple of weeks may have noticed a small new plaque in front of... Read More
Book Review: 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
By Sean Ruthen
Written by Richard Weston (Laurence King Publishing, 2020) This book’s title poses two obvious questions: what is an architectural... Read More
Book Review: Planning on the Edge
By Yuri Artibise
Editors: Penny Gurstein and Tom Hutton (UBC Press, 2019) Planning On The Edge: Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 049, City scenes that saved summer
By Glyn Bowerman
It’s been a rough summer for everyone, but people have found ways to get outside and make the most of it. In this episode, we... Read More
REID: Remembering Doug Taylor, a historian of Toronto
By Dylan Reid
Doug Taylor, one of Toronto’s local historians, died recently at the age of 82. I got to know Doug because we were both among the... Read More
Book Review – The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
By Erick Villagomez
Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to... Read More
The Dufferin Grove Stones and the surprisingly winding trail to discover the origins of mysterious Toronto architectural ruins
By Andrew Lochhead
Hidden amongst the shrubs of one of Toronto’s best-loved parks lies a collection of architectural ruins – carved stones – recently... Read More
Book Review – Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future
By Marnie McGregor
Author: Kirkpatrick Sale (Chelsea Green, 2017) Reading Human Scale Revisited by Kirkpatrick Sale from Athens, Greece during a global... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 048, Safety and wellbeing in Edmonton
By Spacing Radio
In this episode, Natasha Henry, president of the Ontario Black History Society, tells us about the importance of August 1st... Read More
Apology, Truth, and Reparations: The overdue reckoning with Canada’s slave past
By Natasha Henry
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