History
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Time and the City
The city was there before you were born. It will be there after you die. And it is always changing, adapting, absorbing, and transforming, whether we plan...
By Yuval Fogelson -
Dufferin street studios, 2017-2018
Give or take a few months, the productive life of the former industrial complex at 390-440 Dufferin Street spanned 115 years. What had been a single...
By Peter MacCallum -
Book Review – American Bridge: Reinventing Building, Making History
Author: Gregory Dreicer (MIT Press, 2026) We tend to think of infrastructure as something we build. Concrete, steel, timber—assembled into roads, towers...
By Erick Villagomez -
Caste, Cities, and the Hidden Architecture of Inequality
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents offers one of the most compelling reframings of inequality in recent public discourse. Rather...
By Erick Villagomez -
Jimmy Cliff and the roots of Toronto’s reggae scene, Part 2
“A variety of things went wrong.” The Globe’s unflattering verdict noted that Cliff was not as enthralling to watch as Marley, whose two-hour show...
By Cheryl Thompson -
Jimmy Cliff and the roots of Toronto’s reggae scene, Part 1
On November 24, 2025, Jamaican reggae legend Jimmy Cliff (né James Chambers) died at age 81. Twenty years prior, Cliff became only the fourth reggae...
By Cheryl Thompson -
Why the Trillium should find new life on the waterfront
By Toronto standards, it is a borderline miracle that the Trillium ferry is still operational. Built in 1910, two years before the Titanic, the city’s...
By Oliver Hierlihy -
Rethinking Housing Economics
“The edifice of economic theory constructed over the last two centuries, to an extent in the shadow of physics, has been refuted time and again.” ...
By Erick Villagomez -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 082, Toronto’s political gridlock
This month, we respond to Doug Ford’s stated plan of banning new bike lanes in Ontario municipalities and building an underground highway from...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 076, Time’s running out for accessible Ontario
In 2005, Ontario passed the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), which made accessibility for all public establishments a legal...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 075, What does change cost?
With the Toronto budget about to be voted on shortly, we talk to crisis worker and homelessness advocate Diana Chan McNally about what the City needs to...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 074, 20 Years of Spacing
Spacing is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. To celebrate, we talk to publisher Matthew Blackett and executive editor Dylan Reid about how the magazine...
By Spacing Radio