When I first reviewed Donald Elliott’s A Better Way to Zone almost fifteen years ago, I began with a simple observation: ...

The headline image is a composite image showing the former Neighbourhood Centres (gold), which received broad community support as part of implementing the CityPlan directions (1995), overlaid with ...

Amazingly and shockingly, after years of public hand-wringing in Canada about the inflationary consequences of ...

What is public space for? Most planners would answer with some combination of safety, accessibility, mobility, and democratic ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier David Eby recently announced a plan to purchase vacant condominium units and convert ...

This story is published in conjunction with Spacing’s upcoming “summer reading” issue, which will be available on bookstore ...

This op-ed has been written on behalf of the Toronto Public Space Committee (TPSC). Over the course of this World Cup, Toronto is welcoming 300,000 fans across the six matches we’re hosting. Fans and ...

By now, most City Hall watchers know that Brad Bradford has selected, as a pointed wedge issue, a proposal to rename Sankofa Square while simultaneously using its apparently neglected condition as a ...

In May 2026, as part of the Contact Photography Festival, the City of Toronto Archives opened a new didactic exhibition entitled “Subseries 58: Department of Public Works Roadway photographs.” For ...

If you’ve heard people talking about Vancouver’s proposed Villages Plan and wondered what all the fuss is about, you’re not alone. The idea sounds simple enough. The City wants to create 17 “village” ...

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 ...

The waterfront as an east-west canvas for events and animation in Toronto will show its potential like never before during the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Not just the main stadium at Exhibition Place ...