Spacing National

The Future Fix: Generation Restoration

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

By Spacing Radio

THIS EPISODE: Why Toronto is a Role Model for Urban Ecology The City of Toronto has been named a “role model city” by the United Nations Environment Program for Supporting Urban Ecosystems. It’s part of an initiative the UN calls “Generation Restoration,” part of their Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. To find out why Toronto has been named a role model, and what that city can teach others across the world about fostering and protecting their urban ecosystems... Read more

Spacing

NEW ISSUE: State of the Arts in Toronto

Our new issue looks at the challenges faced by the arts, and how Toronto’s artists are finding ways to persist, adapt, and even flourish
By Dylan Reid
Podcast

The Overhead: Preserving Community

Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio
Spacing

NEW ISSUE: Sounds of the City

In an urban environment, noise is an inescapable part of life - but it can be for better or for worse. Issue 67 explores the good and the bad of noise in Toronto
By Dylan Reid
Architecture

Notes from Britain

For the past two decades, Spacing contributor Sean Ruthen has written several architectural travelogues on places near and far – here in Canada from...
By Sean Ruthen
Architecture

Book Review: Surviving Vancouver

“There’s a tranquil spot at Georgina Point on Mayne Island where I sat in 2021 and looked back across the Salish Sea to the mainland. It was a...
By Sean Ruthen
Podcast

The Future Fix: Fighting wildfires with drones and video games

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio

Spacing

NEW ISSUE: Furniture for the People

Our issue 66 looks at the past and future of street furniture in Toronto, plus sewers, outdoor ice rinks, accessibility, TTC guide uniforms, and more.
By Dylan Reid
Architecture

Book Review: To the Ends of the Earth – A Grand Tour for the 21st Century

“As developed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, to experience the sublime is to feel an acute sense of being overawed by...
By Sean Ruthen
Politics

LORINC: National politics vs. local land use planning

Why the federal government should keep its paws off the admittedly imperfect realm of land use planning
By John Lorinc
Architecture

Book Review – The Artful Plan: Architectural Drawing Reconfigured

Editors: Martin Søberg and Anna Hougaard (Birkhäuser, 2020) Architectural representations are more than just visual aids—they are the foundational...
By Erick Villagomez
Podcast

The Future Fix: Dipping into water data

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio
Podcast

THE FUTURE FIX: Vivre en Ville à Victoriaville

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. This is a special, French-language edition.
By Spacing Radio

Housing

Ever wonder how a house gets an address number?

You can tell a lot about a building by its number. Depending on what city you’re in, a street address can indicate distance from a body of water or major...
By Amber Daugherty
Features

Book Review – Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

Authors: Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) In his 1952 novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck took on an argument...
By Jeremy Senko
Politics

Why we must stop the ‘urbicide’ — the killing of cities

The 21st century was supposed to be the “century of the city.” As of 2007, 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and the United Nations has...
By Tricia Wood
Maps

A closer look at the City of Canada transit map

EDITOR’S NOTE: On Canada Day this year, Spacing’s creative director Matthew Blackett published a map of a fictional City of Canada in the...
By Matthew Blackett
Architecture

High-tech tree houses hope to bring more people to city parks

A London-based company Invisible Works is trying to incorporate nature and urban parks by creating clever, innovative structures that blend into the...
By Jonathan Zettel
Photos

Empty Sears Store

Photo by Vik Pahwa (Toronto Photography Blog) The empty Sears store at the Eaton Centre, Nordstrom will be taking over the space, Toronto Contribute your...
By Julie Fish

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