KidScore: Children telling planners what they value in public space

In the world of city planning and design, there are tools for measuring everything from the number of vehicles passing through an... Read More

Hey Presto! The strange history and modest potential of the soon-to-be closed TTC subway booths

The future arrived in Toronto in 1948, but it was hidden away from view, in a 19th century transit garage on Sherbourne St. Six years... Read More

Thorben Wieditz is an urban geographer who works at the intersection of labour, community and big tech. He helped establish regulatory... Read More

The key take-away in the Metrolinx business case report released last week, on the economics of the Scarborough subway, is as simple... Read More

In this episode, we talk about public space issues of the past, present, and future. Spacing Publisher Matthew Blackett tells us how... Read More

Three-and-a-half months after The Great Re-Set trimmed the sails of everyone’s favorite smart city villain, Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan... Read More

At first glance, the made-for-TV Christmas movies that have come to dominate the holiday season on certain channels – and recently... Read More

Much of the conversation about missing middle development in Toronto has been focused on how to smuggle additional housing units into... Read More

There is no public space that holds my heart quite like a laneway. When I moved downtown in the mid-1990s I began to wander the city’s... Read More

When we talk about Smart Cities, which seems to be all the time now, we hear about tensions between public governance and corporate... Read More