S101 Series: Introduction and Call
By Erick Villagomez
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: cities are complex. But that doesn’t mean they need to be complicated... Read More
LORINC: How to expedite affordable housing during a crisis
By John Lorinc
With the launch of the annual budget slam dance, at the beginning of a new term of city council, on this, the 25th anniversary of... Read More
EXCERPT: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic
By Shawn Micallef
The following is the afterword by Spacing‘s Shawn Micallef in the new book Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a... Read More
What Does Our $78-Billion Housing Program Really Fix?
By Patrick Condon
How can Canada possibly spend five years and tens of billions to fix the housing crisis, but still have no idea if it’s working... Read More
LORINC: Can the Ontario Science Centre save Ontario Place?
By John Lorinc
Here’s a strange little detail about the 20-car pile-up that is the Ontario Place redevelopment scheme: Shortly before... Read More
LORINC: John Tory’s housewarming gift to the new police chief
By John Lorinc
In the early 1980s, when inner city crime was soaring in many large metropolitan areas, a pair of American sociologists concocted what... Read More
Digging Into Where The Sun Needs Shine – BROADWAY PLAN – Part 2
By grahammcgarva
Expand upon our embedded assets This lyric essay digs inside the psyche of planning processes. It uses the oblique projection of... Read More
Book Review: The Ecologies of The Building Envelope – A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces
By Erick Villagomez
Author: Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Jeffrey S. Anderson (Actar Publishers, 2021) Given the number of books I read and review every... Read More
LORINC: Toronto’s Rooming House deal: Solving the ultimate puzzle
By John Lorinc
Toronto is a city whose residents are encouraged (or encourage one another) to dislike certain things, but who have also forgotten (or... Read More
NEW ISSUE: Ontario Place
By Dylan Reid
A decade of neglect has transformed Ontario Place into an accidental playground. As you will discover in our cover section, what was... Read More
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John Lorinc
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Erick Villagomez
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Spacing Radio
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 068, Looking for the bright side of Toronto’s election PODCAST: Election Panel with Lorraine Lam and John Lorinc Election Panel: the 905 Edition