Urban Design
LORINC: The never-ending war between Queen’s Park and City Hall
By John Lorinc
There could have scarcely been a more succinct visual metaphor for the chronically dysfunctional relationship between City Hall and... Read More
Housing, Like Beer, Is Better Done in Small Batches
By scothein
Forty years ago, Molson, Labatt, and Carling O’Keefe collectively owned 96 percent of Canada’s beer market. Their shared monopoly... Read More
Event – Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci, Jan. 24
By Spacing
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci Online Panel Discussion Presented by the West Coast Modern League in Partnership with the West... Read More
LORINC: Yonge Street’s new mission
By John Lorinc
It sometimes seems as if the ‘whither-Yonge Street’ question has been loitering on the edges of our civic debates ever since the... Read More
Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By Erick Villagomez
Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists... Read More
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 052, Public Realm Resolutions
By Spacing Radio
We began 2020 with a bit of optimism — how could we know? We had an episode about the public realm and its importance, and spoke to urban... Read More
LORINC: 2020, a year of urban resilience
By John Lorinc
The answer to the “whither-cities” question that’s buzzed around the edges of pandemic punditry was never seriously in... Read More
The Laws of Settlements book available for free online!
By Erick Villagomez
Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that... Read More
Reading List: John Sewell, “The Shape of the Suburbs”
By Dylan Reid
When John Sewell’s book The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s Sprawl came out in 2009, I read it soon after publication... Read More
LORINC: Crombie’s resignation from Greenbelt Council reminds us to look upstream
By John Lorinc
Of course, the Ford government responded with misdirection and a bit of money. In the wake of David Crombie’s weekend resignation from... Read More