Streetscape
In memory: Q&A with Michelle Senayah
By Glyn Bowerman
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
By Murray Campbell
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
By Kim Storey and James Brown
“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
By Sean Marshall
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
By Jeremy Hopkin
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
By John Lorinc
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
By Ryan Bolton
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
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: YongeTOmorrow is an opportunity not to be missed
By Yonge TOmorrow
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
By John Lorinc
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