Green Space
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Shake off quake blues with a button
Just like in 2010, Toronto was shaken by a small earthquake. And just like 14 months ago, we have made a button about it. You can buy one for $3 from our...
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Toronto’s Butterflies
–Clouded Sulpher The city’s built form does not easily lend itself to habitats suitable many insects and we go to great lengths to keep ourselves...
By Jessica Lemieux -
Headspace: Jeremy Guthrie, Major League baseball player and urban cyclist
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco -
Public Health and Downtown Traffic
Mercifully, Toronto has so far been spared the smog days which have defined summers of the past. This respite from smog days however belies the true...
By Marcus Bowman -
Appreciating Urban Trees
Could you imagine a city without trees? Denuded streets baking under the hot sun in the summer and bleak(er) during the long winter months and eerily...
By Jessica Lemieux -
Guerrilla Gardening
It’s the summer solstice and a group of 18 guerrilla gardeners descend on a neglected and garbage-filled lot on D’arcy Street, just off Spadina Avenue...
By Jessica Lemieux -
Paddling the Don
It is 8 am on a cloudy Sunday morning and at Seton Park a hundred or so canoeists and kayakers mill around itching to hop in the Don River for the Annual...
By Jessica Lemieux -
ROAD SHOW: Hay Hay Winnipeg!
To coincide with the launch of Spacing’s first national issue, the magazine presents the Spacing Road Show, a tour of 10 Canadian cities this...
By Matthew Blackett -
Regent Park trees no match for feller buncher
A huge machine tears out a tree from Spacing Magazine on Vimeo. There’s a big new machine in town, and it’s a mean one. As Catherine Porter of the Star...
By MacKenzie Blake -
Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
Edward Burtynsky is a well known photographer of the built landscape. In his exhibition, Oil, which opened April 9th and runs until July 3 at the Royal...
By Jessica Lemieux -
Toronto Urban Bees
The Toronto Beekeepers Cooperative is abuzz with excitement with their recent win at the Green Toronto’s Environmental Awards of Excellence in the Local...
By Jessica Lemieux -
Headspace: The Fort York Pedestrian Cycle Bridge
This regular online series will feature interviews with fascinating and influential urban thinkers, with a focus on discussing how Toronto can become a...
By Luca De Franco