Streetscape
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Toronto’s 10-year public art strategy
Last week, Mayor John Tory dropped by OCAD to declare that 2021 would be the year of public art in Toronto. This announcement sets up the release, later...
By Sarah Ratzlaff -
Run Score: Mapping Toronto’s Runnability
There’s a lot of research that focuses on the walkability of Toronto neighbourhoods. However, there has been little conversation about mapping the...
By Alexander Bimm -
MUKHERJEE: Why has Toronto police stopped enforcing traffic safety?
Does one call it callous disregard for human life or rank incompetence? Or a combination of both? I am referring to the deaths of 48 people — pedestrians...
By Alok Mukherjee -
LORINC: When e-scooters hit Toronto’s streets
When city council this summer passed new and moderately more stringent training regulations for Uber and Lyft drivers, no one could have been shocked by...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 038, Take it to the Streets
Lanrick Bennett starts us off, talking about a pop-up pilot bike lane project on Toronto’s Danforth Ave. Jared Kolb is stepping down as executive...
By Spacing Radio -
WexPOPS pops-up in a vibrant suburban stripmall
WexPOPS is a pilot of the plazaPOPS project, an initiative spearheaded by Daniel Rotsztain, aka The Urban Geographer, and Brendan Stewart (OALA, CAHP)...
By Brendan Stewart -
Mapping defensive urban design in Toronto
What if you found out your neighbourhood public park may not be as welcoming as you thought? Over a few weekends in June, teams of volunteers set out to...
By Cara Chellew -
When is efficient too efficient? Tech lessons from the port city of Hamburg
Cities can have ports, and many do. Moreover, successful ports make for thriving cities. But ports are not cities. They are not models for cities and they...
By Tricia Wood -
Analysis: the permanent King Street transit way is a model for all Toronto
The Toronto Streetcar, older or newer type, is an ever-present symbol of the city. The red, black and white TTC colours trundle along century old tracks...
By Nicholas Sanderson -
LORINC: Celebration and Toronto’s Public Space Moment
The hundreds of thousands of soccer fans spilling onto St. Clair West after Italy’s 1982 World Cup victory marked a turning point for the city: evidence...
By John Lorinc -
Is it time for Canadian cities to think about road pricing? Put it to the people and find out.
Editor: With congestion grinding cities down and road pricing hitting political buffers, is there a better route to a solution? Spacing is pleased to...
By Nicholas Sanderson -
Can we stop talking about congestion? It’s not the point
This is probably a pointless plea, but can we stop talking about congestion? Our conversations about transportation in Canadian urban regions these days...
By Tricia Wood