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The imminent end of the 20-year contract with Astral Media to supply and manage Toronto’s street furniture is a foreseeable follow-up to Spacing’s 20th anniversary. The development of the con...

https://spacing.ca/national/2024/05/03/new-issue-furniture-for-the-people/

The 20th anniversary issue of Spacing (#65) was nominated for a 2024 National Magazine Award for Best Editorial Package. Winners will be announced at the June 8th gala event. Congratulations to o...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/05/02/spacing-nominated-for-national-magazine-award-2/

With the change of the seasons, we talk about different kinds of renewal. First, Senior Editor John Lorinc talks about the special Spacing investigation into the cyber attack on the Toronto Publi...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/30/podcast-spacing-radio-077-spring-cleaning-in-toronto/

Shadow studies often get lost amid the seemingly more pressing issues related to current urban planning and design. However, the relevance of shadow studies has only grown, as cities face increas...

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2024/04/29/s101s-understanding-shadow-studies-why-they-matter/

Finding a public space to sit down and write this article was a struggle. My neighbourhood library is under renovation and will be for the next 12-18 months, and it was still too chilly and rainy...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/26/are-commercial-third-places-a-dying-breed/

I’m one of many who swim and paddle in downtown Toronto year-round.  I have no summer cottage.  The beach is my cottage. Until our last swim on January 7th, 2024, we swam nearly every day yea...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/25/dangerous-development-boulder-beaches-are-unsafe-and-bad-for-us-and-our-environment/

“As developed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 18th century, to experience the sublime is to feel an acute sense of being overawed by nature, a combination of terror on the one hand a...

https://spacing.ca/national/2024/04/23/book-review-to-the-ends-of-the-earth/

I walked into a room one day, and for a moment I could literally see the fierce neural blaze of consciousness in the people around me, and the shimmering flux of neuroelectricity radiating from t...

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2024/04/22/seeing-consciousness/

The building pictured above — a three storey walk-up with five units — is located at the end of the block where I live. I’ve always thought of it as kind of radically non-conforming. The fr...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/18/lorinc-its-time-to-talk-about-the-committee-of-adjustment/

Over a weekend in late March, teams of high school students gathered a conference centre in Toronto’s new Canary District for Design Jam, where they were tasked to brainstorm, design, and proto...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/18/youth-design-jam-for-downsview/

By 2050, an estimated one million new individuals are expected to make their home in the Metro Vancouver area. This projected influx of new residents is in line with the UN’s prediction that 68...

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2024/04/15/noise-the-invisible-pollutant/

This is a follow up to Spacing’s five=part series on the ransomware attack on the Toronto Public Library in the fall of 2023. Part I: Toronto Public Library ransomware attack: Overview Part II:...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/12/what-is-the-cost-of-ransomware-attack-on-toronto-library/

The Housing Series is the product of the last new project Arthur Goss undertook as the City’s Official Photographer. Between March, 1936 and January, 1940, he produced 675 carefully composed ph...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/10/the-urban-photography-of-arthur-goss-part-2-the-housing-series-1936-1940/

The Liberal’s housing, infrastructure and communities minister Sean Fraser is by far the most entertaining politician on the national scene these days, what with his performatively insouciant p...

https://spacing.ca/national/2024/04/05/lorinc-national-politics-vs-local-land-use-planning/

This is part five in a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing The Toronto Public Library’s chief librarian, Vickery Bowles, sat down for an extended virtual intervi...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/03/spacing-investigation-toronto-public-library-ransomware-attack-pt-v/

Editors: Martin Søberg and Anna Hougaard (Birkhäuser, 2020) Architectural representations are more than just visual aids—they are the foundational blueprints for the built environment, embody...

https://spacing.ca/national/2024/04/02/book-review-the-artful-plan-architectural-drawing-reconfigured/

By John Lorinc and Sakeina Syed Although TPL officials maintained an official no-comment stance for much of the shutdown — TPL chief librarian Vickery Bowles told The Globe and Mail‘s Oliver ...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/02/spacing-investigation-toronto-public-library-ransomware-attack-pt-iv/

EDITOR: It’s 1954. Fictitious Bert Xanadu is the Mayor of Toronto and owner of the Imperial Six cinemas on Yonge Street. Mayor Xanadu has been governing from his twitter account for many years,...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/30/take-the-yonge-subway-to-the-future-expect-some-delays/

This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing At some point in mid-2020, with the pandemic raging, the Toronto Public Library began working with the Gartner Group,...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/28/spacing-investigation-toronto-public-library-ransomware-attack-pt-iii/

This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing On October 29, a Sunday, a TPL branch manager got a call on his cell from his supervisor, who relayed the following i...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/27/spacing-investigation-toronto-public-library-ransomware-attack-pt-ii/