Spacing TorontoEvents – Spacing Toronto

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/

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/

WHAT: Spacing’s 20th anniversary party / mag & book launch / exhibition opening WHEN: Saturday, December 2, 2023 • 7-11pm WHERE: UrbanSpace Gallery & Spacing Store, 401 Richmond Street West S...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/11/23/spacings-20th-anniversary-party-happens-december-2/

By Thomas van Laake, University of Manchester, Léa Ravensbergen, McMaster University, David Simor, The Centre for Active Transportation, and Matti Siemiatycki, University of Toronto Cycling is b...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/11/13/emerging-perspectives-on-cycling-policy-and-practice-in-the-gtha/

WHAT: Spacing’s 20th anniversary party / mag & book launch / exhibition opening WHEN: Saturday, December 2, 2023 • 7-11pm WHERE: UrbanSpace Gallery & Spacing Store, 401 Richmond Street West S...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/11/07/spacings-20th-anniversary-party/

Walk Toronto, a grassroots, volunteer advocacy group dedicated to giving a voice to pedestrians in Toronto in order to make Toronto a better city for walking, began with a big meeting at Metro Ha...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/09/25/walk-toronto-marks-10-years-with-a-walk-and-talk-on-oct-1/

With the chaotic Greenbelt scandal swirling in the background, the updated plans for the Ford government’s deeply contentious and destructive scheme for Ontario Place’s West Island are once a...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/09/12/qa-with-steven-evans-on-photographing-ontario-place/

The investigation by Ontario Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk into the Ford government’s removal of 7,400 acres of prime farmland and wetlands from the Greenbelt to enrich a favoured group of devel...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/09/05/whats-really-happening-at-ontario-place-part-1/

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/

A couple of weeks ago, Shawn Micallef wrote in his regular column for the Toronto Star about the chunky red COLLISION signs that had popped up in public parks. These conspicuous consumers of publ...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/07/18/the-true-disruptors-at-collision-2023-were-asking-us-to-slow-down-and-listen/

This week folks passionate about city parks are fanning out across Toronto to study the best the city has to offer in innovative urban park design and management. They’re visiting the massive p...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/06/23/people-passionate-about-parks-gather-in-toronto/

WHAT: Election Night Watch Party: Mayor’s Edition! WHEN: Monday, June 26, 2023 (6-10pm) WHERE: Pauper’s Pub (539 Bloor St W., one block east of Bathurst St.) COST: Free (get a copy of the new...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/06/16/mayors-race-election-night-watch-party/

Last year I had the pleasure of visiting the Berlin studio of Canadian artist Larissa Fassler. I’ve been following her work for some years and I’m fascinated by her layered explorations of ci...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/06/12/event-cross-canada-book-tour-for-larissa-fasslers-viewshed/

Location: Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building – Room250 Apotex Lecture Hall  Time: Friday, June 2, 5:30 – 7:30 (book talk 6-7) Join us as Max Holleran (University of Melbourne) launches his new bo...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/05/31/city-visions-book-series-yes-to-the-city/

This photography exhibit explores Rosehill Reservoir and David A. Balfour Park, the largest green spaces in the Deer Park/Summerhill neighbourhoods of midtown Toronto. They were closed from 2018-...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/05/30/secrets-of-rosehill-reservoir-and-david-a-balfour-park/

  The term “missing middle” has quickly become recognized as shorthand for housing that fills the gap between single family dwellings and high-rise living. But even before American architect...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/05/22/filling-in-the-missing-middle-for-food-retailing/

This weekend sees the launch of more events from the fine folk at Provocation Ideas Festival. “Our mission is to be a new public square of civic engagement,” says Founding Director Mark Rosen...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/05/16/the-promises-and-perils-of-ai-at-the-provocation-ideas-festival/

Tucked behind shelves holding books on suicide, financial literacy, and farming, on the third floor of the Toronto Reference Library, I see an arch. A piece of moss (yes, real moss) rounds its co...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/05/04/space-for-grief-a-public-space-model-for-community-connection-and-healing/

Spacing is happy to announce the release of our eleventh book, The Signs That Define Toronto. Published in partnership with ERA Architects, Spacing’s Matthew Blackett teams up with ERA partner ...

https://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/11/15/the-signs-that-define-toronto-a-new-book-from-era-and-spacing/