Green Space
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Laneway housing: Communal backyard at Queen and Manning
EDITOR: This is a post in our series looking at the laneway housing projects created in a University of Toronto Architecture Faculty’s Laneway...
By Shawn Micallef -
Next phase of Ashbridges Bay skate park
When winter rolls around skate parks are normally no more than a reminder that warm, care free days will come again as Toronto skate boarders hunker down...
By Mairin Piccinin -
Fowl neighbours: Growing up next to backyard chickens
Editor’s Note: Last week, Toronto’s liscencing committee voted against the idea of lifting the (rarely-enforced) ban on owning backyard...
By Mairin Piccinin -
GIFT IDEA: Toronto Tree Portraits Calendar
Earlier this year my consulting partner, Ian Bruce, and I had the fortune of writing the text for the 2012 Toronto Tree Portraits Calendar. The calendar...
By Todd Irvine -
Headspace: Nick Saul, The Stop Community Food Centre
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 -
Building Community One Veggie at a Time
The first time she came by, on a chilly May morning, she gave me a decisive thumbs down and kept on walking. The next week she came she gave a tentative...
By Jessica Lemieux -
Jump Starting Community through Cricket: Valley Park Middle School’s Journey
Like kids across the city, students at Valley Park Middle School are getting into the swing of a new school year. Beyond new books and classes, there is...
By Hilary Best -
The view from NYC of Hurricane Irene
Former Spacing Radio producer Megan Hall was in New York City during the days leading up to Hurricane Irene. Here is her report on how NYC dealt with the...
By Megan Hall -
Solar Energy in Toronto
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted then it should be restricted, redesigned or...
By Jessica Lemieux -
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...
By Spacing -
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