Neighbourhoods
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Regent Park Placemakers: Youth Empowering Parents
This past spring, Jay led her first ever Jane’s Walk — the Not So Typical Regent Park Walk. As a writer and narratologist, Jay was interested in leading a...
By Jay Pitter -
Ford Fest Scarborough — Revisiting Bendale circa 2004
Tonight is the Ford Brother’s Scarborough “Ford Fest” at Thomson Park in the Bendale neighbourhood. If the party is anything like the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Instaflaneur — Toronto’s new Corktown Common park & it’s Dubai views
Corktown Common recently opened and we paid a visit last weekend. The view from the Teletubby-like spash pad is of both the Toronto we know and the...
By Shawn Micallef -
Checking out Ottawa’s new Bank St.
I was in Ottawa last weekend and strolled along Bank St. in the Glebe neighbourhood, which was recently re-done with new street furniture, art and paving...
By Dylan Reid -
Growing up in an Etobicoke Highrise & the sound of Toronto’s heartbeat
Poor amenities. Bad transit. Poor. Bad. Badly poor and poorly bad. You hear these things often about so called tower-in-the-park buildings that sprouted...
By Sheraz Khan -
Spacing’s next issue released on June 25th!
WHAT: Release party for Spacing’s summer 2013 (Toronto edition) WHEN: Tuesday, June 25th, 7:30pm-2:00am WHERE: The 3030 Bar, 3030 Dundas St. West (...
By Spacing -
Fear and loathing of mid-rises in Etobicoke
Today at Etobicoke community council, councillors are debating the future development plans of the Humbertown Shopping Centre. This article, by Spacing...
By Robert Ruggiero -
LORINC: Whatever became of Toronto’s first priority neighbourhood?
Almost a century before the United Way’s Poverty by Postal Code report (2004) begat the City’s “priority neighbourhood” strategy (2006), Toronto officials...
By John Lorinc -
Spacing contributor gets flagged by Toronto Star
Back in our winter 2012/13 issue we showcased the work of Brendan Hennessy who created a series of flags for a handful of Toronto streets (we also...
By Matthew Blackett -
Thinking Local: An Architecture for Humanity Toronto Lecture
This past Tuesday night, I joined a packed house at CSI Annex for the latest of Architecture for Humanity Toronto’s Lecture & Symposium Series on the...
By Nicole Bruun-Meyer -
Play the Walk, April 25 – 28 in the West Queen West Triangle
This weekend, you are invited to Play the Walk – a neighbourhood project for curious citizens, featuring a mobile gift shop in collaboration with Spacing...
By Jay Wall -
Flags for Toronto’s main streets
While Toronto is often called the “city of neighbourhoods,” there is very little visual material that celebrate these areas (outside of customized street...
By Spacing