Architecture
Indigenous youth help redefine landscape architecture
By Joseph Wilson
It’s impossible to teach someone how to build a deer-skin drum over Zoom. “Just feel the string,” says Oshkabewis... Read More
Camera Shy : Downtown Bathurst Street
By Peter MacCallum
As a documentary photographer of architecture, I take a strictly non-hierarchical approach to recording Toronto’s urban fabric. I see... Read More
Recording Hart Massey’s Factory and Concert Hall
By Peter MacCallum
In 1986, I photographed the historic, sprawling Massey Ferguson farm machinery plant in Toronto just as demolition work was getting... Read More
Urban space as a catalyst for improving mental health care
By Will Zahn, Dr. Catherine Zahn, and Bruce Kuwabara
This article is published in conjunction with the upcoming issue of Spacing, which is focused on the theme of public health. In these... Read More
OP-ED: Why we have to save the first parliament site
By Rollo Myers and Ron Williamson
Recent reports that the Queen’s Park may expropriate the First Parliament site, at Parliament and Front Streets, for construction of... Read More
When it comes to parking minimums, less is more
By Lyndsey Rolheiser
Is parking policy in Toronto finally going to be meaningfully reformed? On January 5th, the City of Toronto released a “Report for... 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
LORINC: Tall or small is a false choice between main streets and intensification
By John Lorinc
At its meeting Monday, the Toronto Preservation Board (TPB) voted to adopt a set of staff recommendations that seemed, to some... Read More
LORINC: The digs of R.C. Harris
By John Lorinc
Anyone venturing by the Queen Street side of Old City Hall in the past couple of weeks may have noticed a small new plaque in front of... Read More
REID: Remembering Doug Taylor, a historian of Toronto
By Dylan Reid
Doug Taylor, one of Toronto’s local historians, died recently at the age of 82. I got to know Doug because we were both among the... Read More