Infrastructure

Mackenzie Place: The tallest residential building in Canada’s North

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EDITOR’S NOTE: In Spacing #29/2013, photographer Jesse Colin Jackson and anthropologist Lindsay Bell wrote about MacKenzie... Read More

Tools to address the affordable housing crisis facing Canada

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In 2019, Canada adopted the National Housing Strategy Act, which commits all governments in Canada to “progressive realization of the... Read More

Toronto

Remembering the Hoggs Hollow Disaster

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The Hoggs Hollow Disaster, which occurred on March 17, 1960, killed five Italian immigrant workers: Pasquale Allegrezza, Giovanni... Read More

Toronto

LORINC: Why aren’t Toronto’s major streets major streets?

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One day last week, Toronto history buff Jeremy Hopkin tweeted a then-and-now set of images that told an unflattering story about where... Read More

Toronto

Black History Month: Jack White and the Bloor Viaduct strike action

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Almost lost in Toronto’s vault of Black history is a case of racial discrimination in the spring of 1964 that nearly prevented the... Read More

Toronto

REID: Is it time for a vehicle registration tax to help fix Toronto’s roads?

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Toronto’s streets are in terrible shape. I notice this as a pedestrian, trying to cross at intersections where the zebra stripes that... Read More

Toronto

Reimagining under the Gardiner

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Toronto’s journey towards urban renewal could witness a new stage unfold with plans to transform overlooked areas beneath the Gardiner... Read More

Vancouver

S101 Series: Introduction and Call

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If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: cities are complex. But that doesn’t mean they need to be complicated... Read More

Toronto

EXCERPT: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic

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The following is the afterword by Spacing‘s Shawn Micallef in the new book Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a... Read More

Toronto

Rexdale deserves a spa: An invitation to Therme

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Therme Canada’s proposal for a spa is better suited for Woodbine Entertainment’s renewal plan, and would allow the City of... Read More