Understanding the elusiveness of Smart Cities
What Toronto can learn from global leaders and its own experience with Sidewalk Labs
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OP-ED: Pedaling inaccuracies
Lanrick Bennett argues that MP Yvan Baker’s attack on the Bloor bike lanes ignores the facts
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Making Toronto’s parks more accessible
Park People holds its annual summit on urban parks
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The Overhead: Non-Profit Housing and Gentle Density
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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OP-ED: Their Third Space
Why Toronto’s youth deserve more than just a place to be
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What Brasilia’s “Bike Reporter” can teach Toronto cycling advocates
More ideas about how Toronto can defend its bike infrastructure from Ford's meddling
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 088, Big City Mayor Takes on Canadian Housing
In This Episode: recent Vancouver history, Canada's new housing minister, and Scarborough cuisine
By Glyn Bowerman
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One more housing bill and no new homes
The Ford government continues to strip away Toronto's ability to plan for climate and affordability
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Want an alternative to a 401 tunnel? How about incredibly reliable GO bus service
Highway 401 needs BRT lanes and BRT-grade service sufficient to persuade drivers to leave their cars behind
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Come to the launch of “Messy Cities”
Spacing's Dylan Reid and John Lorinc are among the editors of a new collection of essays exploring messy urbanism
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Disappearing Sunlight
The unique history and uncertain future of Phillip Woolf’s Lever Brothers mural
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Reversing the Ford government’s biking backlash
Cycling and walking advocates at the International Transport Forum summit in Leipzig offer better ways to argue against paleolithic traffic thinking
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A gondola or a bridge to the Island?
Improving access to Toronto Island come to City Council this week, including an option that is more restrictive then it appears
By John Lorinc
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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