Green Space

Eight simple ways to cool a city

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It continues to get hotter in Toronto, with summer temperatures in the high 30s becoming common. We must make immediate changes to our... Read More

Growing the urban forest in the face of climate change

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Todd Irvine is an arborist (cityforest.ca) and a co-founder of Spacing. This article is reprinted from issue 58 of the magazine. For... Read More

WHY WE CAN’T GO: Debunking the Costs of Operating Public Washrooms, pt. 3

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Parks Forestry and Recreation (PFR), according to City of Toronto data, operates over 1,500 parks, nearly 700 sports fields, 123... Read More

Why We Can’t Go: City Flushes Time Away, pt. 2

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Anyone who spends time in cities, and not just Toronto, likely has both a mental map as well as a strategy for finding a place to go... Read More

LORINC: Highway 413 and Doug Ford’s tactical whataboutism

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Going in to this election, did anyone really expect that it would come to focus so intensively on that great big ribbon of blacktop... Read More

EXCERPT: The Islands In My Brain, from “I Own This Town” by Mayor Bert Xanadu

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“I Own This Town” is a Toronto-centric collection of essays, screeds, proclamations, asides, orders, observations... Read More

From Seeds to Saplings: New outreach to help promote growth of native trees

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It started as an ordinary walk through a downtown ravine. Five years later, we are running around the city, doling out thousands of... Read More

The Meadoway: Realizing the power of connectivity

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This article was first published in November in the Park People “10 Years Together in City Parks” series, and is... Read More

NEW ISSUE: City Growing

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Sometimes we get a series of pitches that don’t fit well into a particular issue, but relate to each other as they accumulate in our... Read More