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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • NEW ISSUE: Soccer City

    The tens of thousands of soccer fans who will descend on Toronto in June for the six World Cup games our city is hosting may not think of Toronto as a...

  • NEW ISSUE: Crossing Town

    We still don’t know when the Eglinton Crosstown LRT will open. It could be any day – the testing is all done. Or it could be many weeks away, given its...

  • NEW ISSUE: We like movies

    Autumn is serious film season, when the studios put out the movies they’re hoping will get an Oscar nomination. The season is especially defined in...

  • Reading List: Unplanned Suburbs

    We think of suburbs as places where the middle classes go to leave the city. But Richard Harris’s book Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto’s American Tragedy, 1900...

  • NEW ISSUE: On the waterfront

    We think of the Toronto islands as a nice-to-have, a lovely space for recreation and escape from the city. But in fact Toronto owes its very existence to...

  • NEW ISSUE: Collecting stories

    When Spacing’s publisher Matt Blackett suggested an issue about collectors, I was skeptical. Was this really going to capture something essential about...

  • Toronto in the 2025 Ontario election

    Since the last Ontario provincial election in 2022, Toronto has been powerfully affected by the actions of Premier Doug Ford’s Conservative provincial...

  • NEW ISSUE: Forever Yonge

    Yonge street is very much the spine of Toronto. The city has grown up along and from it, with successive arterial roads radiating outwards like ribs. It’s...

  • REID: Ford’s attack on bike lanes is also a planning problem

    A lot of good reasons against Ontario premier Doug Ford’s plans to not only block many planned bike lanes but rip up some existing one have been put...

  • REID: 10 walking improvements in Toronto over the past 10 years

    Walk Toronto was founded ten years ago, in 2013 (I was one of the founders and am still a member of the steering committee). It’s a grassroots, volunteer...

  • REID: To rename Yonge-Dundas Square, let’s follow the process

    There’s no doubt Yonge-Dundas Square needs a new name. Whatever you think about the Henry Dundas controversy, the square’s current name sounds...

  • REID: The pedestrian blood sacrifice

    In the early 2000s, I moved into a new condo building in the Garment District south-west of Queen and Spadina. The area had been mostly an employment area...