Politics
Book Review – The Affordable City
By claireadams
As Vancouver’s renowned housing crisis continues to deepen and grow, so too do the conversations about just what exactly we should do... Read More
LORINC: A first-responder service for mental health crises
By John Lorinc
This column was originally published in Spacing‘s fall, 2020, edition. City council’s executive committee yesterday voted... Read More
LORINC: Calculating the pandemic’s carbon footprint
By John Lorinc
Does your Blue Bin runneth over? On my morning dog walks, I’ve noticed in the past several months that a growing number of blue bins... Read More
How Much of Vancouver Is Even Left to Plan?
By scothein
Atop this article is a “Five-minute City” drawing I made in 2007 as Vancouver’s senior urban designer when my team was asked to scope... Read More
LORINC: The never-ending war between Queen’s Park and City Hall
By John Lorinc
There could have scarcely been a more succinct visual metaphor for the chronically dysfunctional relationship between City Hall and... Read More
BRADFORD OP-ED: Making 2021 Toronto’s year of the missing middle
By Brad Bradford
The year 2021 comes with high expectations, expectations to get back to the work we started pre-COVID and to build back stronger when... Read More
MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 4
By Dave Meslin
Exactly fifteen years ago this week, I received this short and uplifting e-mail from Toronto city staff: January 12, 2006 Hi Dave, We... Read More
Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By Erick Villagomez
Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists... Read More
The Laws of Settlements book available for free online!
By Erick Villagomez
Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that... Read More
The City in Sight Podcast: Who’s in Charge of the Pandemic?
By Spacing Radio
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE... Read More