Spacing Toronto

LORINC: 8 things to consider about the Scarborough Subway

Karen and Rob are kinda-sorta-friends again. The Liberals have found a way to mollify the long-suffering, wet-footed people of Scarborough. By-elections...

By John Lorinc

Headlines

Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

TORONTO STORM Toronto flooding: One couple’s battle against rising water [Toronto Star] GO Transit offers riders on flood-stranded Richmond Hill...

By Julie Fish

Architecture

CONCRETE TORONTO: Cultural amnesia about concrete architecture

Over the next several weeks, Spacing will be publishing a series of articles from Concrete Toronto: A Guidebook to Concrete Architecture from the Fifties...

By Concrete Toronto

Streetscape

A new way of listening to Toronto

Cities have always inspired musicians. However, a Toronto-based OCADU student, Marc de Pape, has recently created an instrument called the Chime that...

By Stephen Brophy

Headlines

Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday

TORONTO STORM Toronto flooding: ‘Lost’ rivers reappear when nature takes charge [Toronto Star] Toronto flooding: Storm renews debate on aging...

By Stephen Brophy

Infrastructure

Toronto Flood 2013: The revenge of Garrison Creek

It’s no coincidence that places like Christie Pits, Trinity Bellwoods Park, and the train bridge underpass at King and Atlantic streets were all affected...

By Todd Harrison

History

A bird’s-eye tour of Toronto in the early 1930s

The late 1920s and early 1930s were an important time in the building of Toronto. Many of the city’s most beautiful landmarks opened in those few...

By Adam Bunch

Traffic

Pedestrian countdown signals reduce collisions

Last Thursday, a car performed an astonishingly dangerous turn in front of traffic at Lake Shore Blvd. and Bay. It collided with another car, and they...

By Dylan Reid

Headlines

Toronto’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday

TORONTO STORM Storms stall TTC, GO as roads, tracks and stations flood [Toronto Star] Severe thunderstorms cause flooding, blackouts, havoc on roads...

By Stephen Brophy