Culture
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 074, 20 Years of Spacing
Spacing is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. To celebrate, we talk to publisher Matthew Blackett and executive editor Dylan Reid about how the magazine...
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REVIEW: Cities: Skylines II – A new dawn for city-building gaming
For Claire Basinski, like many other millennials, the original SimCity served as her closest exposure to city planning in her youth. Today she’s president...
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CNE’s grand plans of the past: Visionary days for people places in Toronto and Ontario
EDITOR: Landscape architect and urban designer Walter Kehm worked on the CNE master plans in the late 1960s and recently found these images that included...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 073, Love Park and Love Letters
We meet Globe & Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic in the new Love Park on Toronto’s waterfront, to talk about good public space design...
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The Ultimate Guide to the Best Songs About Toronto
In the Fall 2023 issue of Spacing, we shone a spotlight on five “Toronto Troubadours”: Drake; Kardinal Offishall; Lowest of the Low; Ohbijou; and Owen...
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Reimagining Chinatown: In conversation with the Toronto Chinatown Land Trust
Chinatown has always reimagined. Rooted in a history of racialized exclusion, Chinatown communities dared to reimagine who gets to belong within Canadian...
By Linda Zhang -
EXCERPT: The Letters, postmark prejudice in black and white
The Letters is based on actual correspondence my mother received before her interracial marriage in Toronto in June, 1947. Her family implored her “not...
By Sheila White -
EVENT: Cross-Canada book tour for Larissa Fassler’s Viewshed
Last year I had the pleasure of visiting the Berlin studio of Canadian artist Larissa Fassler. I’ve been following her work for some years and...
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The promises and perils of AI at the Provocation Ideas Festival
This weekend sees the launch of more events from the fine folk at Provocation Ideas Festival. “Our mission is to be a new public square of civic...
By Joseph Wilson -
Space for Grief: A public space model for community connection and healing
Tucked behind shelves holding books on suicide, financial literacy, and farming, on the third floor of the Toronto Reference Library, I see an arch. A...
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Take me back to Happiness: an art show about Hanlan’s Point beach
What: Take me back to Happiness: paintings of Hanlan’s Point art show by Zach Rosen When: March 9-14 Opening Reception March 10 6-10PM Where...
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Black History Month: Making space for Black music in Canadian radio
By Cheryl Thompson and Francesca D’Amico-Cuthbert In 1983, Toronto radio personality Ron Nelson introduced local audiences to the program “Fantastic...
By Cheryl Thompson