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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Dylan Reid

  • NEW ISSUE: State of the Arts in Toronto

    A city’s arts form an ecosystem. It’s easy to focus on the big features – the trees, as it were – but the true health of the system lies in the...

  • NEW ISSUE: Sounds of the City

    I first moved into my current home around this time of year, in early August. I’d moved from downtown to a greener, more residential area, and when we sat...

  • NEW ISSUE: Furniture for the People

    The imminent end of the 20-year contract with Astral Media to supply and manage Toronto’s street furniture is a foreseeable follow-up to Spacing’s 20th...

  • NEW ISSUE: Celebrating 20 years

    Twenty-one years ago, I read an article about the Toronto Public Space Committee in Eye Weekly. Intrigued, I visited their website (back in Web 1.0 days...

  • NEW ISSUE: Writing Toronto

    Novelists mine the past, mirror the present, and imagine the future to create the settings for their stories. When their novel is set clearly in a...

  • NEW ISSUE: Fire!

    Our city is built around fire, for better or for worse. The heat provided by fire made it possible establish a city in a cold climate. Burning fuel...

  • NEW ISSUE: Rain

    I’ll place a bet that you cursed rain sometime this season. Spring is rainy, but it’s not yet warm enough for the rain to be a relief from drought or...