We have plans for the future, but not always a path to get there. Somewhere between the long horizon and today's next step, ...

At this week’s City Council meeting, Mayor Olivia Chow will move a motion to develop a plan for commemorating the veteran ...

Cities are built toward futures of their time. What we inherit gets adapted, protected, bulldozed, or recovered.

In May 2026, as part of the Contact Photography Festival, the City of Toronto Archives opened a new didactic exhibition ...

A croissant queue, a transit card, a sun cutting through Manhattan once a year. On being physically present in a city.

Rob Ford’s climactic parade into the hall. As soon as I entered the Toronto Congress Centre, my friends pulled me into the lineup they were standing ...

Cross-posted to Spacing Votes WARD 12 (York/South Weston) – Frank Di Giorgio – D NOW magazine calls him “Frank Who?”. Voted to ...

Although this book includes works from all phases of Kahn’s career, it is neither a “complete works” nor a monographic survey. To maximize the area dedicated to Kahn’s iterative and exploratory ...

Over the past year, I have written multiple times about how misinformation and selective framing continue shaping Toronto’s transportation debates. In previous Spacing op-eds including Pedaling ...

This spring, at Bloomberg CityLab in Madrid, social prescribing reached the agenda of the world’s largest cities summit for the first time. It was a breakout session rather than a main-stage event, ...

There is a version of city-building that planners often imagine, if not quietly hope for. A place where vision aligns with implementation. Where institutions work in concert rather than at cross ...

Cheapskate in Lotus Land, the new book by writer/humourist Steve Burgess, delivers what he promises in the subtitle: “The Philosophy and Practice of Living Well on a Small Budget.” A myriad of brief ...