Canadian Urbanism Uncovered
The magazine's 20th anniversary issue is a nominee for Best Editorial Package
By SpacingThe 20th anniversary issue of Spacing (#65) was nominated for a 2024 National Magazine Award for Best Editorial Package. Winners will be announced at the June 8th gala event. Congratulations to our editors and contributors for their outstanding work on this issue. Read more
In this episode: Terrible trash cans and Russian hackers
By Spacing Radio
A recent renovation of his local Starbucks that discourages spending time there has Craig Meerkamper pondering the loss of spaces to hang out between home and workplace.
By Craig Meerkamper
At a time when Ontario Place has been put off limits, the City's new approach to making beaches is not an improvement
By Steve Mann
These tribunals attract the worst kind of NIMBYism and don't belong in a city that needs to fight a housing crisis on every front
By John Lorinc
High school students came up with urban design ideas for a prize aimed at getting them excited about planning
By Nathan Abraha
With the City footing the bill for what happened at the Toronto Public Library, a heightened awareness of the importance of cyber-security kicks in
By John Lorinc
Toronto's first official photographer captured the state of housing at the end of the Great Depression
By Peter MacCallum
Q+A with Toronto's chief librarian, Vickery Bowles, about how the library is moving forward
By John Lorinc
The library's digital infrastructure was out of commission for months. What did the City learn?
By John Lorinc
With the opening of the new, unfamiliar "subway" in Toronto today, March 30, 1954, Mayor Bert Xanadu offers Torontonians some tips on how to navigate this subterranean marvel.
By Mayor Bert Xanadu
City officials were sternly warned to beef up cyber-security two years before Toronto Library attack
By John Lorinc
The ransomware attack on the Toronto Library raises tough questions that still lack complete answers
By John Lorinc
In the Fall 2023 issue of Spacing (coming soon to a store or mailbox near you), we shine a spotlight on five “Toronto Troubadours” — musicians “dedicated...
By Todd Harrison
Viruses, in the abstract, don’t care much about their host organisms, beyond the latter’s on-board, physiological defenses. Yet it’s clear the coronavirus...
By John Lorinc
The investigation by Ontario Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk into the Ford government’s removal of 7,400 acres of prime farmland and wetlands from the...
By Ian Darragh
On the north-east corner of Bathurst and St. Clair West sits a snazzy purpose-built condo sales office, ostensibly there to promote Foret, a giant...
By John Lorinc
With the chaotic Greenbelt scandal swirling in the background, the updated plans for the Ford government’s deeply contentious and destructive scheme...
By John Lorinc
Sequel to Part 1 of “What’s really happening at Ontario Place?“ Ontario Place was conceived by Conservative Premier John Robarts in 1968 as an...
By Ian Darragh