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SPACING’S NEW BOOK: Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto
WHAT: Remnants of Mid-Century Toronto, photos by Vik Pahwa, edited by Matthew Blackett COST: $25 / use midcenturylove during checkout for $5 off BUY: Purchase for pickup or delivery at the Spacing...
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Book Review: McIntyre House
UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Written by Sherry McKay, Preface by Douglas Coupland (ORO Editions 2020) I miss that people once built houses like McIntyre House, homes that so elegantly...
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How public institutions fail Black children
All Black lives matter. Andrew Loku, Abdirahman Abdi, D’Andre Campbell, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and numerous Black lives — which includes Trans and queer lives — whom we don’t know all died after...
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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 implementation of bus lanes in September. Yes, THIS...
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Book Review: Draw In Order To See
Author: Mark Hewitt (ORO Editions, 2020) Visualizing one’s ideas is a well known standard in the design fields. Thinking visually is particularly important in the fields of architecture, interior,...
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The Future Fix: Safe Streets
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Safe Streets For our second season, we wanted to begin with a...
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REID: Examples of east side gentle density
One of the things I started looking out for on my local walks during the our locked-down pandemic spring (in addition to former corner stores) was examples of “gentle density” – multi-unit buildings...
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The connections between public art and activism
In this moment of social and political upheaval, as protesters demand racial justice in response to police brutality and systemic racism, people are beginning to rethink how they want to navigate...
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Apology, Truth, and Reparations: The overdue reckoning with Canada’s slave past
This essay is a sequel to Natasha Henry’s account of the history of enslavement of Black people in Canada prior to 1834, published in Spacing last month. Black Canadians deserve a formal apology for...
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Why is City of Toronto sole-sourcing key digital infrastructure?
Toronto City Council is set to vote this week on a staff recommendation to sole-source a contract for a technology system. The contract is with Kansas City-based company PayIt. The company sells a...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 048, Safety and wellbeing in Edmonton
In this episode, Natasha Henry, president of the Ontario Black History Society, tells us about the importance of August 1st: Canada’s Emancipation Day. And Edmonton City Councillor Andrew Knack tells...
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Book Review: The Architecture of Trees
Authors: Cesare Leonardi & Franca Stagi (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) In Italy, most architects know this book and have drawn on the contents in its pages first during their university...
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THOMPSON: What if the Caribana Carnival went back to its roots?
“The watching Torontonians didn’t cheer, didn’t wave,” reported the Toronto Daily Star on August 5, 1967, as “Caribana” left Varsity Stadium on Bloor Street for a mile-long procession. “West Indians...
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LORINC: Slaying the NIMBY beast
It took council and city planning officials almost exactly a year to adopt a policy meant to make Toronto’s abundant, overpriced and increasingly depopulated low-rise neighbourhoods safe for so-called...
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Incomplete streets, incomplete imaginations: Safe streets for whom?
My experience in community bike spaces, and later in cycling advocacy spaces, has been profoundly impactful and transformative. I have become acquainted with how mainstream cycling advocates in North...
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The Dufferin Grove Stones and the surprisingly winding trail to discover the...
Hidden amongst the shrubs of one of Toronto’s best-loved parks lies a collection of architectural ruins – carved stones – recently identified as originating from the Toronto Custom House. Built in...
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Book Review – The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings...
Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to well-known The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A...
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The Future Fix: COVID and Critical Data
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: COVID and Critical Data We hear a lot about Open Data these days....
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REID: Remembering Doug Taylor, a historian of Toronto
Doug Taylor, one of Toronto’s local historians, died recently at the age of 82. I got to know Doug because we were both among the inaugural inhabitants of a new mid-rise residential building in the...
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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 tragedies have occurred in urban centres — the...
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