Green Space
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LORINC: Highway 413 and Doug Ford’s tactical whataboutism
Going in to this election, did anyone really expect that it would come to focus so intensively on that great big ribbon of blacktop planned and now known...
By John Lorinc -
EXCERPT: The Islands In My Brain, from “I Own This Town” by Mayor Bert Xanadu
“I Own This Town” is a Toronto-centric collection of essays, screeds, proclamations, asides, orders, observations, outbursts and flattery that...
By Mayor Bert Xanadu -
From Seeds to Saplings: New outreach to help promote growth of native trees
It started as an ordinary walk through a downtown ravine. Five years later, we are running around the city, doling out thousands of acorns to schools...
By Val Masters -
The Meadoway: Realizing the power of connectivity
This article was first published in November in the Park People “10 Years Together in City Parks” series, and is republished here with...
By Shawn Micallef -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 064, Toronto Shelter Collapse
Those working with unhoused people in Toronto, like Sanctuary Toronto outreach worker Lorraine Lam, are warning about the total collapse of the...
By Spacing Radio -
NEW ISSUE: City Growing
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 pitch pile over time...
By Dylan Reid -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 063, The War on Robots
We end the year with a classic case of man vs. machine, as journalist and culture writer Graham Isador talks about tiny delivery robots taking over city...
By Spacing Radio -
Achtung! Go for a German Walk T.O.
Over the summer and fall I was happy to work with a team put together by the German Consulate in Toronto on a series of audio walks exploring...
By Shawn Micallef -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 061, Community sports and urban farming
In this episode, we follow up on the municipal elections in Edmonton and Calgary, with a bit of a rant about rooming houses. Then, we talk to journalist...
By Spacing Radio -
EXCERPT: Outdoor School – Under the Freeway, a Forest: Some Notes on Trespassing
Outdoor School includes the contemporary environmental art of more than 20 Canadian and Indigenous artists. Below is an excerpt from a curatorial essay...
By Spacing -
Indigenous youth help redefine landscape architecture
It’s impossible to teach someone how to build a deer-skin drum over Zoom. “Just feel the string,” says Oshkabewis (Anishnaabemowin: helper), Healer and...
By Joseph Wilson -
MESLIN: If a billboard falls in a forest… Part 4
Exactly fifteen years ago this week, I received this short and uplifting e-mail from Toronto city staff: January 12, 2006 Hi Dave, We have researched...
By Dave Meslin