Yearly Archives: 2024
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 078, Bike Month
It’s Bike Month! It’s a time we celebrate cycle culture in Toronto and surrounding cities and towns. At least officially. Despite some...
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Saving an oak forest – from bylaw enforcement
Eric Davies is one of Toronto’s most vocal advocates for the heritage oak trees that have managed to survive in this rapidly developing urban environment...
By Lorraine Johnson -
Op-Ed: Can green infrastructure thrive in high-density urban development?
Carolyn Whitzman is a senior research associate with the Canadian Urban Institute and Roy Brooke is the Executive Director of the Natural Assets...
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LORINC: Toronto’s transit agenda has gone missing
A day or so before the deadline for a threatened TTC strike, New York State governor Kathy Hochul torpedoed a much anticipated and controversial...
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‘I remember where I was when I read that book…’
In the Venn diagram of nerdy pursuits, there is a special place where enthusiasm for public space overlaps with the obsessive and irrational drive to...
By Joseph Wilson -
Op-Ed: Why is there so little rental construction?
This is an op-ed column by Jonathan Diamond, a principal at Well Grounded Real Estate Development in Toronto primarily consists of condos, with...
By Jonathan Diamond -
LORINC: Major planning change for Toronto’s major streets
Though it normally seems as if the gears of Toronto’s planning machinery are barely moving, the reforms of the past four years add up to what will...
By John Lorinc -
Clearcutting in the Don Valley
If you walk, bicycle or drive along Millwood Road along the edge of the Don Valley, a fringe of greenery hides the moonscape below. There are huge...
By Ian Darragh -
OP-ED: Addressing Toronto’s congestion will take more than technology
In a recent ranking index, Toronto is listed as the third worst congested city in the world (after London and Dublin). The metric used by the company...
By Mahtot Gebresselassie and Tricia Wood -
Book launch of expanded and updated edition of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
Spacing’s senior editor and co-founder Shawn Micallef has expanded and updated his 2010 book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. The...
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OP-ED: The bicycle licence, again
For almost as long as there have been bicycles in Toronto, there have been politicians who considered the bicycle licence as a solution to some cycling...
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The Ground We Share
“The way he stares, he’s forcing you to engage with him.” Zun Lee, the renowned street photographer known for his profound interactions with his subjects...
By Trent Weston