Urban Design
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LORINC: Preparing to weather the winter pandemic
After an emotionally complicated long weekend featuring spectacular fall colours, ambiguously-limited Thanksgiving gatherings, and disturbing statistics...
By John Lorinc -
Re-purposing Toronto’s city-owned golf courses
Public space has never been so popular. Over the summer in Toronto, we saw streets closed for active recreation, parks filled with people young and old...
By Cara Chellew -
Parks, policing, and the pandemic
Park People’s national COVID-19 survey shows that parks have become more important than ever to Canadians during the pandemic. While many have been using...
By Adri Stark -
Fixing Avenue Road
The car wins on Avenue Road. It always does. The pattern of valuing the convenience of drivers over everything else has been fixed since 1959, when the...
By Murray Campbell -
Coming clean on Regent Park’s Social Development Plan
By Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie and Lena Sanz Tovar Earlier this year, the City of Toronto at long last approved $635,000 to partially fund the Regent Park...
By Spacing -
Farewell, Regent Park
By Lena Sanz Tovar and Keisha St. Louis-McBurnie Farewell Oak Street, produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1953, presents a before-and-after...
By Spacing -
LORINC: Building a better residents association
We live in a society where individuals aren’t regulated in the ways in which they participate in (legal) group activities — from reading groups to sports...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 049, City scenes that saved summer
It’s been a rough summer for everyone, but people have found ways to get outside and make the most of it. In this episode, we speak to 8 80...
By Glyn Bowerman -
Why is urban planning so white?
By Saquib Ahsan, Ruth Belay, Abigail Moriah, and Gervais Nash The deaths of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Abdirahman Abdi, Ejaz Choudry, and countless other...
By Spacing -
COVID RECOVERY: Timid bus priority plan in Toronto needs to be bigger & bolder
This week, the Executive Committee of Toronto City Council is considering a motion to prioritize public transit on select roadways through the...
By Tricia Wood -
LORINC: What’s in a street name? Dundas and other uncomfortable truths about our city
The street where I live, near St. Clair West and Christie, was originally called Victoria after it was carved out of a farmer’s field or replaced a cow...
By John Lorinc -
Five organizations come together to produce a community map of Toronto “safeways”
In a great display of community collaboration, five Toronto-based organizations dedicated to improving and enhancing the city’s public realm have come...
By Ken Greenberg