Parks
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Love Park, and loving parks
Toronto has a new park devoted to love, and it’s already been the venue for two weddings. The final day of the Park People 2023 national conference held...
By Ian Darragh -
Field notes from a parks conference
From green roofs on new buildings, to quantifying visitors (beyond counting toilet paper rolls), to how much to mow, here are some notable ideas to emerge...
By Ian Darragh -
People passionate about parks gather in Toronto
This week folks passionate about city parks are fanning out across Toronto to study the best the city has to offer in innovative urban park design and...
By Ian Darragh -
Secrets of Rosehill Reservoir and David A. Balfour Park
This photography exhibit explores Rosehill Reservoir and David A. Balfour Park, the largest green spaces in the Deer Park/Summerhill neighbourhoods of...
By Spacing -
LORINC: Ontario Place and a tale of two message tracks
After spending much of last Wednesday watching Therme Canada and its consultants perform in public, first during a four-hour session with a combined...
By John Lorinc -
Take me back to Happiness: an art show about Hanlan’s Point beach
What: Take me back to Happiness: paintings of Hanlan’s Point art show by Zach Rosen When: March 9-14 Opening Reception March 10 6-10PM Where...
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Megalandscape: A counter-proposal for Ontario Place
The Ontario government’s proposal to cannibalize Ontario Place by building a monstrous, for-profit spa on public land will destroy a waterfront ecology...
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EXCERPT: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic
The following is the afterword by Spacing‘s Shawn Micallef in the new book Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic published...
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LORINC: Can the Ontario Science Centre save Ontario Place?
Here’s a strange little detail about the 20-car pile-up that is the Ontario Place redevelopment scheme: Shortly before Christmas, the province...
By John Lorinc -
NEW ISSUE: Ontario Place
A decade of neglect has transformed Ontario Place into an accidental playground. As you will discover in our cover section, what was once intended as a...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: 10 questions about the Ontario Place redevelopment
At some point this week, City officials will upload the Ford government’s zoning bylaw amendment application for the Ontario Place redevelopment to...
By John Lorinc -
Midtown Toronto’s much-loved, largest green space re-opens – after $35 million and more than four years of construction
David A. Balfour Park, midtown Toronto’s largest public green space, has finally re-opened after being closed for infrastructure repairs and upgrades...
By Ian Darragh