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Filling in the Missing Middle for food retailing
The term “missing middle” has quickly become recognized as shorthand for housing that fills the gap between single family dwellings and...
By Glenn Miller -
MAYOR’S RACE: A Saunders mayoralty and the coming crisis of police oversight
By this point in our unwieldy mayoral by-election, it should be crystal clear that the standard bearer for the inevitable law-and-order campaign is Mark...
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Inequality, Gender, Intersectionality, Gentrification, and the City: An interview with Leslie Kern
Cities are political and economic centers of power. This comes with its fair share of challenges like poverty and inequality. Spacing Vancouver...
By Erick Villagomez -
Your 15-minute city is not my 15-minute city
Carlos Moreno’s “15-minute city” has been promoted by many city mayors around the world – perhaps most famously Parisian mayor Anne Hidalgo. In...
By Robert Turner -
MAYOR’S RACE: Parsing the politics of Mark Saunders’ performative allyship
Toronto’s mayoral election is historic. So many candidates and so many political affiliations, identities, and experiences. Voting is going to be a...
By Cheryl Thompson -
The Future Fix: Smart Cities, Reconsidered
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Smart Cities...
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Transit workers’ perspectives on violence on the TTC
According to new data from the TTC released last week, the number of violent incidents on the system rose 46% in 2022 compared to the year previous...
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EXCERPT: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic
The following is the afterword by Spacing‘s Shawn Micallef in the new book Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic published...
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LORINC: John Tory’s housewarming gift to the new police chief
In the early 1980s, when inner city crime was soaring in many large metropolitan areas, a pair of American sociologists concocted what they dubbed the...
By John Lorinc -
Measuring Toronto’s unsafe construction zones
Prior to this September’s return to school, Mayor John Tory announced that the City of Toronto will be doubling down on its construction-related road...
By Mischa Young -
REID: The Jenga school of civic management
For some years, I worked for an organization that practiced what I came to think of as the Jenga school of management. The organization loved to hire...
By Dylan Reid -
The Future Fix: a smart shift for Trois-Rivières
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. This is a special...
By Spacing Radio