PODCAST: Spacing Radio 094, The Landlords
In this episode: rental construction, Bill 60, and tenants' rights.
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Book Review: Building Art – The Life and Work of Frank Gehry
“To redesign the environment we really have to redesign our whole value system – question the sacred cows – and ask ourselves what we...
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More housing near transit won’t solve Toronto’s affordability crisis
Transit-oriented development sounds like progress, but it may just create more expensive housing in convenient locations, write architect Onah Jung
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LORINC: Toronto’s repackaged progressivism on menu at City Hall
City-run grocery store plan says more about lack of political imagination than a genuine concern for affordability
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 93, Everything Eglinton
In this episode: celebrating the Crosstown, lessons learned, and Scarborough's Golden Mile.
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LORINC: Pedestrianizing Old City Hall
E.J. Lennox's grand old building should be surrounded by car-free spaces
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Winter soccer
When the snow starts falling, an indoor team in Scarborough keeps the game alive for spectators
By Alex Kharabian
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The politics of Island Airport during election year, Part II
Doug Ford wants to expropriate the island airport, just in time for the mayoral election — but does the province even have the legal right to take it over?
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Do Toronto’s small urban spaces have a social life?
William Whyte's classic 1980 film, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, remains as relevant today as it did 45 years ago
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Adjusting the Committee of Adjustment
A veteran planner argues that the outdated committee isn't up to the challenges of up-zoning Toronto
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In praise of ugly park trash bins
As the City looks to improve the street litter boxes, there's a lesson to be learned about how to manage waste in our parks
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The Overhead: Rent Control and Rent Hikes
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
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The winter of a thousand Januarys
After yet another snow dump, a kid's-eye appreciation of the city in winter, haphazard snow clearance and all
By Josh Fullan
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The Ultimate Guide to the Best Songs About Toronto
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...
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LORINC: The pandemic is about cities
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...
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What’s really happening at Ontario Place? (Part 1)
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...
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LORINC: The Tories’ use-it-or-lose housing ruse
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...
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Q&A with Steven Evans on photographing Ontario Place
With the chaotic Greenbelt scandal swirling in the background, the updated plans for the Ford government’s deeply contentious and destructive scheme...
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What’s really happening at Ontario Place? (Part 2)
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