The way spaces are designed influences how people socialize, build community, and go about their day-to-day lives, directly ...

I recently found myself wandering Commercial Drive, reading between its pulsing cafés and restaurants. An empty storefront.

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 ...

I’m old enough to remember when Brad Bradford’s pungent symbol of Toronto’s urban decay was the apparently misnamed Sankofa ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Shaun Merritt begins a new column on public art in Toronto, looking at what we have, where it is, and some of the stories behind it ...

EDITOR: Last week at the annual Stephen Leacock debate in Toronto saw Rob Ford, Celine Dion, Stephen Harper and Don Cherry on a crashing plane with only ...

The Toronto Cyclists Union is being honoured in Washington, DC today, they have been awarded the 2010 “innovation of the year” award from the ...

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

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 ...

Walk through a neighbourhood with someone who grew up there, and the stories start. The diner that used to be on that corner. The whole block that looked completely different. There is nostalgia in it ...

At this week’s City Council meeting, Mayor Olivia Chow will move a motion to develop a plan for commemorating the veteran North York city councillor Howard Moscoe, who died in late May at the age of ...