Culture

Toronto vs. Manchester at the FutureEverything Festival

Next week I’m on a panel called Shaping the City at FutureEverything, an art-music-conference-festival in Manchester, England. FutureEverything, in...

Hot Docs: Disorder

Population density inevitably increases turmoil. Although the size of  a municipality is often directly linked to the amount of regulation and...

Hot Docs: Osadné & The Mirror

More and more we live in cities; more and more human stories are urban stories. But, of course, lots of charming, witty, and eager-to-talk people still...

Hot Docs: Citizen Architect

Urbanist films at Hot Docs 2010

Hot Docs 2010 begins tonight and runs until May 9. Over the next week we’ll be posting reviews of some of our favourite Spacing-relevant film. For now...

In-Site Toronto

In-Site Toronto is a series of newly commissioned artwork that is presented on the portal pages of several wireless internet hotspots in the Wireless...

Regent Park Film Festival: Call for Submissions

It’s film festival time again… rather, it’s the time to start thinking about film festivals. If you’ve got a story to tell and an...

WATERFRONToronto unveils Underpass Park

As the West Don Lands neighbourhood continues to take shape, Waterfront Toronto is being forced to reconcile with the unique challenges of the area. One...

Islands in the stream of consciousness: the people we never meet in Toronto

The following is a reprint of my recent Psychogeography column in Eye Weekly. Photo by Smaku. Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods, we’re told. When they...

Richard Serra’s King City Shift

High on my long list of Spacing posts I’ve not yet had time to make is one on Richard Serra’s “Shift” sculpture. It sits in a...

Billboard tax and signs by-law face final hurdles

After the St. Clair Right of Way was approved, Toronto Environmental Alliance activist Gord Perks told me that nothing worth doing at City Hall takes less...

JOHN LORINC: Is beauty the ticket?

The BeautifulCity.ca coalition has admirable, but possibly naà¯ve, expectations about the civilizing benefits of public art. The group wants the city to...