Green Space
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2025 Global Placemaking Summit comes to Toronto
Registration is open! Hundreds of placemaking leaders from around the world will gather in Toronto from June 8-11, 2025 to take part in the Global...
By Matthew Blackett -
The Future Fix: Generation Restoration
THIS EPISODE: Why Toronto is a Role Model for Urban Ecology The City of Toronto has been named a “role model city” by the United Nations...
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EVENT: Strollin’ — an evening talking about walking November 28
WHAT: An evening talking about walking on November 28 at 6PM. WHO: Shawn Micallef, Spacing Sr. Editor, Toronto Star columnist and University College...
By Spacing -
The scouring of Ontario Place
Between 2021 and 2023 architectural and documentary photographer Steven Evans trained his eye and camera on Ontario Place as plans for its future were...
By Steven Evans -
Book Review – The Shape of the Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture
Editor: Marc Treib (ORO Editions, 2022) Transforming the natural environment is fundamental to our species. Since ancient times, humans have reshaped...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Barcelona Chronicles: The Superilla…Evolved
After a scenic ride through El Poblenou and along the Barcelona waterfront, we approached the Sant Antoni market from the south, via Carrer del Comte...
By Erick Villagomez -
LORINC: The public space embarrassment that is College Park
When College Park (pictured above) formally re-opened, in 2019, the City of Toronto put out a rather breathless press release on what had been achieved in...
By John Lorinc -
Metro Van Is Losing Trees. That Means a Hotter Future
With temperatures heating up due to climate change, tree canopies have an important role to play in shading and cooling residents. But according to new...
By Christopher Cheung -
Ontario Place’s West Island trees on death watch
Every week this summer Francesca Bouaoun has launched her kayak at Ontario Place to check on the trees. They’re a stand of 850 trees planted 54 years ago...
By Ian Darragh -
From drainage ditch to vibrant, pollution-absorbing habitat
When Douglas Counter heads out the front door of his Etobicoke home to appreciate the day’s new blooms, he doesn’t have to go far. The flowers are waiting...
By Trent Weston -
Listen Up! What birdsong tells us about everyday life
This article is published in conjunction with Spacing‘s new issue (#67), which is themed around noise in the city. Click on the links of bird names...
By Sarah B. Hood -
OP-ED: Free our Front Yards
An Etobicoke native plant gardener is ordered to cut his “turfgrass and weeds” (he actually has neither) to 20 cm (8 inches). An Annex ecologist is...
By Lorraine Johnson