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This article is published in conjunction with issue #68 of Spacing magazine, which is focused on the state of the arts in Toronto. Look for it soon on the shelves of your local bookstore, or in y...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/10/31/establishing-affordable-creative-spaces/

Kensington Market: Heart of the City is a neighbourhood documentary that’s been in the making since 2016. “It’s really a look into the heart of the city of Toronto, how it came to be, the s...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/10/23/a-call-to-preserve-kensington-market/

A documentary about Ontario Place featuring Francesca Bouaoun of Ontario Place For All, as well as Steve Mann and many other members of SwimOP, will have its world premiere at the Toronto Interna...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/09/06/ontario-place-premieres-at-tiff/

Inside the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station’s airy concourse, architecturally integrated public artwork, Atmospheric Lens, transforms the mundane commute into an experience of unexpected won...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/09/04/re-visiting-the-subway-art-of-atmospheric-lens/

From November 1, 1972 to September 30, 1975, a Black cultural hub known as the Harriet Tubman Youth Centre operated in a building located at 15 Robina Avenue, just north of the St. Clair West/Oak...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/01/remembering-the-harriet-tubman-youth-centre-on-st-clair-west/

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/

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/

In the Venn diagram of nerdy pursuits, there is a special place where enthusiasm for public space overlaps with the obsessive and irrational drive to collect books. For self-described “book-bes...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/06/05/i-remember-where-i-was-when-i-read-that-book/

Spacing’s senior editor and co-founder Shawn Micallef has expanded and updated his 2010 book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto. The new book is out now and available in person a...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/05/16/book-launch-of-expanded-and-updated-edition-of-stroll-psychogeographic-walking-tours-of-toronto/

Over a three-day weekend last winter, the last few residents of the retirement home at the west end of our street were quietly moved out. No one really saw them leave—there weren’t any tellta...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/11/review-as-it-is-a-precarious-moment-in-the-life-of-ontario-place/

This piece is co-authored by Dr. Cheryl Thompson and Daysha Loppie Many statues have commemorated white historical figures in Toronto’s public spaces: Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John ...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/05/how-can-we-make-black-history-matter/

Amidst a record-breaking spell of winter heat, Winter Stations, the longtime East End project created to enliven the deepest cold snaps, is opening its tenth annual installation along Woodbine Be...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/02/16/ten-years-of-winter-stations/

With the Toronto budget about to be voted on shortly, we talk to crisis worker and homelessness advocate Diana Chan McNally about what the City needs to invest to help refugees and other unhoused...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/01/30/podcast-spacing-radio-075-what-does-change-cost/

Spacing is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. To celebrate, we talk to publisher Matthew Blackett and executive editor Dylan Reid about how the magazine came together, the latest issue and anniver...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/12/21/podcast-spacing-radio-074-20-years-of-spacing/

For Claire Basinski, like many other millennials, the original SimCity served as her closest exposure to city planning in her youth. Today she’s president of the Ontario Professional Planners I...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/11/20/review-cities-skylines-ii-a-new-dawn-for-city-building-gaming/

EDITOR: Landscape architect and urban designer Walter Kehm worked on the CNE master plans in the late 1960s and recently found these images that included his work in the University of Guelph arch...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/10/25/visionary-days-for-people-places-in-toronto-and-ontario/

We meet Globe & Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic in the new Love Park on Toronto’s waterfront, to talk about good public space design, bad maintenance practices, and the legacy of legend...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/10/06/podcast-spacing-radio-073-love-park-and-love-letters/

In the Fall 2023 issue of Spacing, we shone a spotlight on five “Toronto Troubadours”: Drake; Kardinal Offishall; Lowest of the Low; Ohbijou; and Owen Pallett. These five artists were chosen ...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/09/11/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-best-songs-about-toronto/

Chinatown has always reimagined. Rooted in a history of racialized exclusion, Chinatown communities dared to reimagine who gets to belong within Canadian society and defied the status quo of who ...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/08/17/reimagining-chinatown-in-conversation-with-the-toronto-chinatown-land-trust/

  The Letters is based on actual correspondence my mother received before her interracial marriage in Toronto in June, 1947. Her family implored her “not to marry outside her race.” Vivian K...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/07/26/excerpt-the-letters-postmark-prejudice-in-black-and-white/