Streetscape

In memory: Q&A with Michelle Senayah

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Michelle Senayah, co-founder of the Laneway Project and a force behind Open Streets Toronto, died suddenly at the age of 36 earlier... Read More

Fixing Sam’s Road: The urban design disaster of Avenue Road

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Avenue Road is the enduring legacy of Sam Cass. Very enduring. Cass was the traffic engineer hired by the new Metro Toronto government... Read More

The Un-Avenues: Integrating new intensity for housing, open spaces, and streets

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model... Read More

Shining a light on Toronto’s streetlamps

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Street lighting is an important, yet overlooked, part of any city’s standard infrastructure. For over seventy years... Read More

Sleuthing a ghost sign on River Street

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Ghost signs: The slowly fading hand-painted advertisements that cling to the sides of older buildings, redundantly promoting... Read More

LORINC: The cautionary tale of Rail Deck Park

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If Toronto’s Rail Deck Park plan ended up dying in a dense thicket of legalistic land-use planning arguments, it would be fair... Read More

Vacant Queen Street West: a pandemic photo essay

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Queen Street West has always been a revolving door of independent businesses. Starting at the bottom of Parkdale, Queen Street is an... Read More

Urban space as a catalyst for improving mental health care

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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: YongeTOmorrow is an opportunity not to be missed

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This is an op-ed by from YongeTOmorrow and co-signers Richard Florida, Rana Florida, Ken Greenberg, Dr. Robin Mazumder, Brent... Read More

LORINC: Calculating the pandemic’s carbon footprint

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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