If you walk, bicycle or drive along Millwood Road along the edge of the Don Valley, a fringe of greenery hides the moonscape below. There are huge clearcuts where heavy machinery has logged over ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/05/17/clearcutting-in-the-don-valley/
In a recent ranking index, Toronto is listed as the third worst congested city in the world (after London and Dublin). The metric used by the company (Tomtom) is how long it takes to drive 10 kil...
Spacing’s senior editor and co-founder Shawn Micallef has expanded and updated his 2010 book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. The new book is out now and available in person a...
For almost as long as there have been bicycles in Toronto, there have been politicians who considered the bicycle licence as a solution to some cycling issue. The latest proposal, approved by the...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/05/15/op-ed-the-bicycle-licence-again/
“The way he stares, he’s forcing you to engage with him.” Zun Lee, the renowned street photographer known for his profound interactions with his subjects, vividly recalls his encounter with...
Moore Avenue is a small but busy street in North Toronto that usually has a steady line of cars moving in both directions. But for the second time in less than a year, the road has been narrowed ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/05/08/shadowland-photography-down-in-the-ravines/
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/
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...
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/
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...