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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...

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/

This is a five-part series independently produced and investigated by Spacing As a parent to a two-year-old, Markus Harwood-Jones made visiting a Toronto Public Library branch an essential mainst...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/26/spacing-investigation-toronto-public-library-ransomware-attack-part-i/

Politicians and government bureaucrats love process. Let’s not rush to blame them, though, because there’s a lot to love. Carrying out a series of planning meetings, collecting relevant data,...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/21/op-ed-when-process-is-the-enemy-of-progress/

THIS EPISODE: Dipping Into Water Data We all know access to clean water is vital. We also know that water quality and access is jeopardized by things like pollution and drought. On the other hand...

https://spacing.ca/national/2024/03/21/the-future-fix-dipping-into-water-data/

Spacing et Evergreen présentent ensemble une nouvelle série de podcast, Face au futur : des solutions pour les communautés du Canada, d’une côte à l’autre. CET ÉPISODE: Vivre en Ville...

https://spacing.ca/national/2024/03/19/the-future-fix-vivre-en-ville-a-victoriaville/