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Book Review – Copp House
Author: Adele Weder (ORO Editions (2017) In a mansion-filled Vancouver neighbourhood not far from the University of British Columbia stands a low-slung cedar fence, silvering in decay and overflowing...
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Creating child-friendly cities
by Dr. Judy Farvolden, Josh Fullan and Angela Ma Ask a kid what makes a great city and you’ll get answers that sound like those any good urbanist might give: freedom of movement, shared spaces for...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 024, Ontario Votes!
Election day is fast approaching, advanced polls are already open, so let’s talk Ontario. We’re joined by TV Ontario’s John Michael McGrath (provincial affairs columnist and host of The Agenda on...
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The need for site-specific works of art
Daniel Young and Christian Giroux’s new public art piece—Three Lines Where Two Points Meet, located at the intersection of Bathurst and Vaughan—has elicited visceral responses from some Torontonians....
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LORINC: Making sense of the most crazy-ass Ontario election ever
I have no idea if all bets are off. But you’ve got to think that the hallucinatory 48-hour period bracketed by Kathleen Wynne’s self-immolating concession and yesterday’s news bomb about Rob Ford’s...
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Why I revived the Bureau of Municipal Research
Ten years ago, as a grad student researching the history of Toronto’s waterfront, I came across a study, published in 1977, that could very well have been written today: “Should the Island be an...
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Notes from the Maritimes
At the end of May, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) held their 2018 Festival of Architecture in Saint John, New Brunswick, and celebrated the venerable organization’s 111th year. As...
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LORINC: How will Doug Ford govern?
How will Doug Ford govern? With a week left before he’s sworn in, the most crucial, and also the most elusive, question right now is what will be the form of leadership Ford brings to his new...
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What TCHC needs to do next with Regent Park
This is a guest column from Shauna Brail and Alfred Jean-Baptiste Over the relatively short time span of just over a decade, Regent Park has gone from a place of significant disrepair and decay to a...
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The Architecture of Michelangelo Antonioni
In the history of modern cinema, the relationship between architecture and human drama has only been fully exploited by a few filmmakers, and it could do an architect well to learn how architecture is...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 025, “Until We’re Safe”
In this episode, we discuss the problems with policing in Toronto. Alok Mukherjee was Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board from 2005-2015. In that time, he wrestled with reforming the police, and...
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LORINC: Breaking down Doug Ford’s impossible, ridiculous, scandalous subway...
Because we here in Spacing’s bustling newsroom like to provide informative and constructive analysis to politicians of all stripes, we felt it would be helpful to cost out the new premier’s plan to...
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LORINC: The post-Will era begins
Waterfront Toronto’s public positioning to accompany the gang-plank resignation yesterday of its now former CEO Will Fleissig could be summarized thusly: “Nothing to look at here, please keep moving.”...
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CITY ELECTION: Fixing Vision Zero, guest column by Sarah Climenhaga
EDITOR’S NOTE Spacing is inviting candidates who are running for city council this fall to share their opinions on numerous city-building topics. Articles are not an endorsement from Spacing — we hope...
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Book Review – Preston Scott Cohen | Taiyuan Museum of Art
Edited by Benjamin Wilke – No. 11 Source Books in Architecture (Applied Research & Design 2017) Preston Scott Cohen has built a distinctive design language on the convergence of geometry and...
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LORINC: Doug Ford’s un-greening of Ontario
If you take a quick stroll through the Government of Ontario’s air quality tracker site – which I’d recommend doing before it mysteriously disappears in a puff of cost-cutting – you will come across a...
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REID: Some interesting public furniture in Russia
I recently returned from a trip to several cities in Russia, and wanted to share some interesting public space furniture ideas I encountered. Many Russian cities have seen considerable investment in...
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A closer look at the City of Canada transit map
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Canada Day this year, Spacing’s creative director Matthew Blackett published a map of a fictional City of Canada in the Toronto Star. This is a follow-up post. You can buy a print of...
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LORINC: Doug Ford’s Barbarians are at the gate
I must confess to a grudging admiration for the speed and shrewdness with which Premier Doug Ford succeeded in knocking two and perhaps even three of the four legs out from beneath John Tory’s mayoral...
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The legal case against Ford’s assault on local democracy
There was a collective jaw drop when Premier Doug Ford announced, seemingly out of the blue, that Toronto’s wards would be decreased from 47 to 25. But the bigger shock was Mayor John Tory’s tepid...
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