This isn’t your typical house slated for demolition. The lawn isn’t wildly overgrown, and the structure isn’t dilapidated. Instead, 91 Barton Ave. is bustling with activity, a sense of rebi...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/07/25/the-bold-the-fleeting-the-beautiful/
In the coming weeks, Waterfront Toronto crews will remove the final plug in the new Lower Don, thereby allowing the river to finally flow naturally towards the harbour through the $1.25 billion f...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/07/17/they-brought-back-the-don/
Toronto is often accused of being over-regulated. It’s a fair criticism. For example, photographer and urbanist commentator Dan Seljak tells us how he stumbled upon the small Finch Store sellin...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/07/16/podcast-spacing-radio-079-is-toronto-strangled-by-rules/
On the evening of July 1, after the sky darkened and the fireworks over Ashbridge’s Bay began, some participants noticed eight police drones monitoring the crowds, occasionally sweeping their l...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/07/11/lorinc-eyes-in-the-sky/
If there is a good way to make city streets safe, Avenue Road is a bad example. By the time a proposed interim safety plan for Avenue Road reached City Council at the end of June this year, commu...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/07/09/op-ed-avenue-road-a-bad-way-to-make-good-roads/
In a city that loves to make, but not execute, plans and then overthink, but not solve, problems, there’s surely no better illustration of this twin-set of frustrating civic habits than the rec...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/07/04/lorinc-the-gordian-knot-that-is-toronto-island/
Much-needed repair work to the western portion of the Gardiner Expressway began this spring, sparking a lot of consternation about the disruptions to drivers resulting from the work. In response,...
Given all the powerful arguments articulated by commentators like Elsa Lam, in Canadian Architect, or Alex Bozikovic, in The Globe and Mail, there’s every reason to conclude that the Doug Ford ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/06/26/lorinc-the-case-for-adaptive-re-use-of-ontario-science-centre/
Following the appointment of Charles E. Chambers as Parks Commissioner in 1912, Toronto’s park system entered a period of continuous expansion, creating new parks, playgrounds and recreation ce...
“There’s a tranquil spot at Georgina Point on Mayne Island where I sat in 2021 and looked back across the Salish Sea to the mainland. It was a clear day, the north shore mountains and the tow...
https://spacing.ca/national/2024/06/19/book-review-surviving-vancouver/
In 1979, when the renowned American sociologist William (Holly) Whyte published The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces — which is, let’s face it, a love letter to New York — he was training ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/06/19/lorinc-the-public-space-miracle-of-the-moveable-chair-redux/
It’s Bike Month! It’s a time we celebrate cycle culture in Toronto and surrounding cities and towns. At least officially. Despite some significant gains in cycling infrastructure, there are s...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/06/18/podcast-spacing-radio-078-bike-month/
Eric Davies is one of Toronto’s most vocal advocates for the heritage oak trees that have managed to survive in this rapidly developing urban environment. For more than a decade, Eric has been ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/06/18/saving-an-oak-forest-from-bylaw-enforcement/
Carolyn Whitzman is a senior research associate with the Canadian Urban Institute and Roy Brooke is the Executive Director of the Natural Assets Initiative The next generation of Canadian afforda...
A day or so before the deadline for a threatened TTC strike, New York State governor Kathy Hochul torpedoed a much anticipated and controversial congestion pricing plan that would have seen drive...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/06/12/lorinc-torontos-transit-agenda-has-gone-missing/