Civic Engagement
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LORINC: In search of clarity on Sidewalk Labs (plus correction)
Before what will be a sold-out house tomorrow night at the St. Lawrence Centre, officials with Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet/Google’s smart city division, will...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 017, Urbanists Assemble!
Bringing you the highlights from the Council for Canadian Urbanism’s annual summit, held this year in Winnipeg. We speak to CanU founding president...
By Spacing Radio -
Pride and Policing: a comparative history of Toronto and New York
The decision to ban uniformed police from marching at this year’s Toronto Pride Parade has prompted an invitation from the Gay Officers Action League...
By Marina Tyszkiewicz -
Making places for Toronto’s Queer history
By Ed Jackson In June, 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama proclaimed the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street in New York City, as an American...
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Building community through the use of public space in the sharing economy
What happens when fare collectors start to become wise to over-turnstile Bunz trade activity occurring at Ossington subway station? The station’s central...
By Sarah Yellin -
Behind the Kensington Market Research Project
Joshua Barker is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and the director of the University’s Ethnography Lab. The Lab was...
By Sarah Yellin -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 005, Shake It Up
This is the companion episode to the latest issue of Spacing Magazine, with a focus on celebrating women in city building. We talk to Pamela Robinson...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 003 books, cops and grunge
In this episode, we talk about books about cities and urbanism that change the way we experience our communities. This could mean getting in touch the the...
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THE ARTFUL CITY: An Interview with Public Studio
Public Studio is the Toronto-based collective art practice of filmmaker and artist Elle Flanders and architect and artist Tamira Sawatzky. Since 2009...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 002 reveals the Jane Jacobs Prize winners
Spacing Magazine is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Jane Jacobs Prize, and Spacing Radio has in depth interviews with this year’s...
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“Canstruction” delivers big for Toronto’s food banks
I’m standing in front of a large pile of yellow cans of fruit — cherries, peaches, fruit salad — that has been designed and shaped to look like something...
By Kieran Delamont -
MESLIN: Digital megaboard proposed for West Don park corridor
UPDATE: 68 letters were sent to the Committee, in opposition to the billboard proposal (you can read them all, at the bottom of this page). Rather than...
By Dave Meslin