Urban Design

Creating child-friendly cities

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by Dr. Judy Farvolden, Josh Fullan and Angela Ma Ask a kid what makes a great city and you’ll get answers that sound like those any... Read More

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LORINC: What Toronto should learn from Hamburg’s self-driving shuttle pilot

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HAMBURG, GERMANY — At some point in 2019, the first of three curiously upright shuttle vehicles will begin tooling around a 3.6km loop... Read More

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LORINC: Sidewalk Labs, autonomous vehicles, and the persistent myth of driver error

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LEIPZIG, GERMANY, reporting from the International Transport Forum  — When Sidewalk Labs unveiled its plans for Toronto’s... Read More

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LORINC: Toronto’s road safety shame

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LEIPZIG, GERMANY, reporting from the International Transport Forum  — The contrast could scarcely be starker: with yet another death... Read More

Community

LORINC: Sidewalk Labs’s district energy gambit

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Within the next week or so, Sidewalk Labs will sign contracts with two as-yet unnamed engineering firms tasked with figuring out one... Read More

Film & Video

50 Objects That Define Toronto: Marriage Certificate of First Legal Gay Union

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Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we... Read More

Film & Video

50 Objects That Define Toronto: Joe carter’s 1993 Batting Gloves

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Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we... Read More

Events

EVENT: Come to the new Spacing issue and book launch party!

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WHAT: Spacing Spring issue release party / “25 Toronto Transit Secrets” book launch WHEN: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 ... Read More

Politics

LORINC: Ford’s transit promises have nothing to do with transit

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Do. Not. Be. Distracted. By. The. Shiny. Object. I speak, of course, about Doug Ford’s promise to spend $5 billion on transit, on top... Read More

Film & Video

50 Objects That Define Toronto: In The Skin Of A Lion

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Spacing teamed up with FIBE TV1 last year to create a series based on our first book 50 Objects That Define Toronto. Once a week we... Read More

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