Neighbourhoods
This weekend: Jane’s Walk Festival + Provocation Ideas Festival
By Joseph Wilson
Urban activist Jane Jacobs’ birthday is this week (May 4) and many Torontonians will be celebrating by attending the Jane’s Walk... Read More
The Sun is Always in Your Eyes in Rexdale
By Kunal Chaudhary
This essay originally appeared in issue 57, summer 2021. The author, Kunal Chaudhary, has been nominated for the Best Emerging Writer... Read More
LORINC: The back-channel lobbying of residents’ associations
By John Lorinc
Should residents’ associations be required to register as lobbyists? This loaded question, as it turns out, was canvassed, sort... Read More
LORINC: NIMBYs vs Garden Suites, Season 2
By John Lorinc
Here’s an odd little mystery about a freshly filed appeal by a residents association coalition of council’s new... Read More
Corner Commons: Creative placemaking on a suburban scale
By Clara Stewart-Robertson, Ernestine Aying, & Eunice Wong
Clara Stewart-Robertson is Manager of Community Planning and Development, Jane/Finch Centre; Ernestine Aying is Community Design... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 063, The War on Robots
By Spacing Radio
We end the year with a classic case of man vs. machine, as journalist and culture writer Graham Isador talks about tiny delivery... Read More
The fading of the garment district factories: McGregor Socks, Spadina Avenue, 2003
By Peter MacCallum
In 2003 I began a two part documentary photography project featuring the McGregor Socks knitting mill on Spadina Avenue, and the Korex... Read More
LORINC: The Revenge of the Market Urbanists
By John Lorinc
Here’s a tale of two cities… In the City of Toronto (pop. 2.8 million), there are about 1.1 million private dwellings, and... Read More
The transformation of Mabelle Park
By Kelly Boutsalis
This article was first published in August in the Park People 10 Years Together in City Parks series, and is republished here with... Read More
Achtung! Go for a German Walk T.O.
By Shawn Micallef
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... Read More