Waterfront
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a red rectangle of our urban density hinge-mounted like a stamp
nights, bearings, routes
By Derek DeLand -
The politics of Island Airport during election year, Part II
From where I sit, Doug Ford’s triumphalist yodelling this week about the Toronto Islands airport sounds much less like an expansion plan than a...
By John Lorinc -
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 -
Who’s behind the deep-pocketed private equity firm that’s bought into Therme?
Back in the summer, Therme went public with a somewhat perplexing development in its corporate life — a €1 billion merger of its two, somewhat related...
By John Lorinc -
Running the City
Dawn doesn’t so much break over Toronto on marathon morning as creep in behind the sound of trucks, radios, and zip-ties. Streets that usually hum with...
By Alex Kharabian -
EVENT: On the Edge – Photographs of Toronto’s Downtown Waterfront 2023-2025
The fifty photographs in the exhibition On the Edge – Photographs of Toronto’s Downtown Waterfront 2023-2025 collectively present a record of the...
By Spacing -
The long battle for Yellow Creek Ravine
Because the summer of 2025 has been all about infernal heat and drifting smoke, as opposed to the Biblical downpours of recent years, the public/media...
By John Lorinc -
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...
By Dylan Reid -
Marking Lake Ontario’s lost shoreline
This article is published in conjunction with Spacing issue 71, which focuses on Toronto’s waterfront. The issue will be available shortly at the...
By Chris Bateman -
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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The Future Fix: Dipping into water data
THIS EPISODE: Dipping Into Water Data We all know access to clean water is vital. We also know that water quality and access is jeopardized by things like...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 073, Love Park and Love Letters
We meet Globe & Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic in the new Love Park on Toronto’s waterfront, to talk about good public space design...
By Spacing Radio