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Establishing affordable creative spaces
With the Community and Cultural Spaces Trust, artists and planners explore the community land trust model as a solution to the cultural space crisis
By Erika Hennebury and Hannah Fleisher -
REID: Ford’s attack on bike lanes is also a planning problem
The City of Toronto has shifted its parking requirements for multi-unit buildings from cars to bikes – and needs those bike lanes for this strategy to work
By Dylan Reid -
ISMAIL: Biking a mile in another kid’s hood
Cycling columnist Sabat Ismail shares the dilemma of teaching cycling safety to racialized youth who do not have safe places to cycle
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A call to preserve Kensington Market
The new documentary "Kensington Market: Heart of the City" highlights the voices of people in the market and their fears for its future
By Shiri Yeung -
OP-ED: Private cars are not the accessibility solution High Park needs
The City needs to deliver on promise of a shuttle rather than reversing the momentum towards a car-free High Park
By Jessie Ye -
Toronto to Ford: Stay in your lane
Mayor Olivia Chow needs to spend some political capital to halt Ford's ridiculous veto over bike lanes
By John Lorinc -
Watch this space
The Ford government's deal with Therme shows the area around the spa will never truly be a public space, senior editor John Lorinc writes
By John Lorinc -
Why is the Board of Trade shilling for The Big Doug?
We should be debating actual solutions to congestion instead of a highway tunnel scheme that will never be built
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 082, Toronto’s political gridlock
In This Episode: Doug Ford to ban bike lanes, Toronto cyclist throughout history, and who should take charge of the TTC.
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The Lives of 233–235 Spadina
Once one among many handsome 19th-century mansions on Spadina, this house has managed to outlast its contemporaries by constantly adapting.
By Peter MacCallum -
LORINC: The public space embarrassment that is College Park
Five years after a major rehab, the open space at Yonge and College has already gone to seed
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 081, Talking Transit ’24
In This Episode: Is the TTC reliable? Will the Eglinton Crosstown ever open? And Doug Ford's literal track record.
By Spacing Radio
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered