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Predictions for Toronto in 2033
By Spacing
At our recent 15th anniversary party we asked people to tell us a prediction about Toronto in 2033. Here’s a selection of them. Read More
Event: Life Between Umbrellas Design Competition
By Vancouver Public Space Network
Vancouver receives the equivalent of over five months of rainy weather a year. How can our public spaces better respond to the wet... Read More
Doug Ford’s TTC subway upload and Margaret Thatcher’s cautionary tale
By Tricia Wood
As the province contemplates major structural change to Toronto’s transit system, I want to offer London’s rocky history... Read More
Life on the Line: Light in the Tunnel
By Spacing(Alex Garant, “Midnight”) By Sarah Ratzlaff For... Read More
Is good regional transit planning impossible?
By Tricia Wood
Image: Christof Spieler, Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of U.S. Transit, Island Press. The recent news from Vancouver is... Read More
LORINC: Subway upload: negotiating when you have no cards in your hand
By John Lorinc
As has been widely noted, the Ford government’s approach to nearly everything has a kind of malevolent Bozo-the-clown vibe, with an... Read More
A modest proposal for reforming Toronto’s Land Transfer Tax
By Spacing
By Zack Taylor Few topics have pre-occupied Toronto’s budget watchers more over the past decade than the city’s land transfer tax... Read More
The Bloor Street Viaduct
By Spacing
As the City celebrates the centennial of Toronto’s most recognizable pieces of infrastructure with the unveiling of a historical... Read More
A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’
By Christopher Cheung
On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set... Read More
If you think Toronto’s transit is overly politicized, you’re right.
By Tricia Wood
It’s designed to be that way. We need to change that. A common criticism of transit decision-making in Toronto is that it is overly... Read More