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OP-ED: Making encampments obsolete should be a priority for Toronto’s next mayor
No one wants encampments. Not the people who live in them, who would almost certainly rather live in a stable, adequate home. Not the neighbours, who want...
By Alan Broadbent and Elizabeth McIsaac -
LORINC: Fourplex on the Council floor
Senior editor John Lorinc examines City Council's new policy that allows multi-unit houses to be built as-of-right in Toronto neighbourhoods
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At 40, is Avenue Duluth Canada’s original shared street?
With summer coming up, some of us might start to see social media posts with images celebrating Montréal’s festive and convivial open streets. While many...
By erkin ozberk -
MAYOR’S RACE: The twisted politics of Toronto’s byelection
Are you, dear reader, keeping it all straight? Like a river that has overtopped its banks with a sudden spring melt, the mayoral by-election has rapidly...
By John Lorinc -
Space for Grief: A public space model for community connection and healing
Tucked behind shelves holding books on suicide, financial literacy, and farming, on the third floor of the Toronto Reference Library, I see an arch. A...
By Yasmin Afshar -
Your 15-minute city is not my 15-minute city
How to put some numbers on Carlos Moreno's 15-minute City, figure out where your 15: zone is, and if you can afford to live there.
By Robert Turner -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 070, Toronto Mayoral Election Redux
Now that John Tory has officially stepped down as mayor, the field of candidates hoping to replace him is a big one. With roughly 50 candidates on the...
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Book Review: Building With Paper – Architecture and Construction
Edited by Ulrich Knaack, Rebecca Bach, and Samuel Schabel – Berkhauser Verlag, 2023 To identify industrial solutions in the building industry...
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MAYOR’S RACE: We need to talk about Doug
I have no idea what Ontario Place will look like in 2118, but I feel confident in predicting that Therme Canada’s 65,000 sq.-m human aquarium...
By John Lorinc -
Talking Landscape Architecture: An Interview with Marc Treib
Anne Whiston Spirn once described landscape as “...a language derived from the core activity of landscape architecture: artfully shaping, from...
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MAYOR’S RACE: Will it be a fear-mongering or city-building election?
The late Jack Layton used to have an adage about public life that profoundly informed his approach to politics: Proposition, he’d say, not...
By John Lorinc -
MAYOR’S RACE: Parsing the politics of Mark Saunders’ performative allyship
Toronto’s mayoral election is historic. So many candidates and so many political affiliations, identities, and experiences. Voting is going to be a...
By Cheryl Thompson
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered