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How many more highway lanes? On the 20th anniversary of the Greenbelt, the Ford government's highway building plans are turning back the clock. #TOpoli #ONpoli #CDNpoli
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How many more highway lanes? - Spacing Toronto
After more than two decades tucked away as an idea simply not worth the cost, Highway 413 is finally kicking into gear as Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government has awarded the first ...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How many more highway lanes? On the 20th anniversary of the Greenbelt, the Ford government's highway building plans are turning back the clock. #TOpoli #ONpoli #CDNpoli
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Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
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Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy - Spacing Toronto
I have lived for many years less than 30 metres from what was once one of Toronto’s storied corner stores — a green grocer known locally as “Dom’s” — for the owner, Domenico Cozzi. He and his wife Ros...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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Gerrard St. East - from Chinatown east to the tracks - will be facing changes as the Ontario Line gets developed. Photographer Peter MacCallum captures its current state. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Gerrard Street East Part 1, 2023-2024 - Spacing Toronto
In the spring of 2023, a friend who was familiar with my earlier documentary photography of the city’s main streets suggested that I consider doing a project on the highly varied streetscape of Gerrar...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Gerrard St. East - from Chinatown east to the tracks - will be facing changes as the Ontario Line gets developed. Photographer Peter MacCallum captures its current state. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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Good morning(ish)! On the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed, we’ve started a new season of our special housing series The Overhead with @bshnode.bsky.social! This month is Indigenous-Led Housing: spacing.ca/national/202...
The Overhead: Indigenous-led housing - Spacing National
THIS EPISODE: Indigenous-led Housing What does Indigenous housing look like? Are there special forms of housing needed by Indigenous communities in particular to address specific health and community ...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Good morning(ish)! On the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed, we’ve started a new season of our special housing series The Overhead with @bshnode.bsky.social! This month is Indigenous-Led Housing: spacing.ca/national/202...
Are we focusing on the wrong EVs? @albertkoehl.bsky.social looks at the history of electric vehicles in Toronto - beginning with some of the first cars - noting that streetcars and subways have been providing EV transportation all along (and remember trolley buses?). spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
OP-ED: Electric Vehicles and the Federal Sales Standard - Spacing Toronto
Electric cars are in the news, though it’s hard to call them new. Torontonians were impressed when they first saw an electric car on city streets … in 1896. And it’s easy to forget that other types of...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Are we focusing on the wrong EVs? @albertkoehl.bsky.social looks at the history of electric vehicles in Toronto - beginning with some of the first cars - noting that streetcars and subways have been providing EV transportation all along (and remember trolley buses?). spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
In a nice coincidence with the Jays, the new issue of Spacing opens with a mini-section on sports - with a feature on Toronto's other baseball team (the other Maple Leafs), whose games, by contrast with the Jays, are free, and @jbcurio.bsky.social on the major league baseball teams we almost had.
October 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In a nice coincidence with the Jays, the new issue of Spacing opens with a mini-section on sports - with a feature on Toronto's other baseball team (the other Maple Leafs), whose games, by contrast with the Jays, are free, and @jbcurio.bsky.social on the major league baseball teams we almost had.
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Here's @spacing.bsky.social at the Presse Internationale in the Beaches. (Still hosting an impressive selection of magazines)
October 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Here's @spacing.bsky.social at the Presse Internationale in the Beaches. (Still hosting an impressive selection of magazines)
Our Fall issue (#72) is out, looking at Toronto and the movies! Editor @dylanreid.bsky.social introduces the issue and explores the sometimes complicated relationship between Toronto and film. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
NEW ISSUE: We like movies - Spacing Toronto
Autumn is serious film season, when the studios put out the movies they’re hoping will get an Oscar nomination. The season is especially defined in Toronto because the Toronto International Film Festi...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our Fall issue (#72) is out, looking at Toronto and the movies! Editor @dylanreid.bsky.social introduces the issue and explores the sometimes complicated relationship between Toronto and film. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
While Spacing didn't win any awards at tonight's Toronto Heritage Awards, we're pleased to have connections to many of the winners. Spacing reviewed book winner "He Hijacked My Brain: Gary Topp's Toronto" in issue 70. 🧵
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
While Spacing didn't win any awards at tonight's Toronto Heritage Awards, we're pleased to have connections to many of the winners. Spacing reviewed book winner "He Hijacked My Brain: Gary Topp's Toronto" in issue 70. 🧵
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“Marathons offer a rare intimacy with place, letting runners feel a city’s character through its streets and the people who line them.”
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Running the City - Spacing Toronto
Dawn doesn’t so much break over Toronto on marathon morning as creep in behind the sound of trucks, radios, and zip-ties. Streets that usually hum with commuters now sit in temporary silence, lined wi...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“Marathons offer a rare intimacy with place, letting runners feel a city’s character through its streets and the people who line them.”
@spacing.bsky.social #running
@spacing.bsky.social #running
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Don’t miss the latest @spacingradio.bsky.social, where @dylanreid.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, and @shebuildscities.bsky.social talk about their new books “Messy Cities,” and why not everything in a city needs to be planned: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
Episode 90: Bless This Urban Mess
Podcast Episode · Spacing Radio · 2025-10-14 · 57m
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October 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Don’t miss the latest @spacingradio.bsky.social, where @dylanreid.bsky.social, @zahraeb.bsky.social, and @shebuildscities.bsky.social talk about their new books “Messy Cities,” and why not everything in a city needs to be planned: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
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"Messy Cities" is featured on the @spacing.bsky.social podcast, as co-editors @shebuildscities.bsky.social , @zahraeb.bsky.social and @dylanreid.bsky.social discuss genesis of the book and the ideas behind it with host @glynbowerman.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess - Spacing Toronto
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone’s needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Messy Cities" is featured on the @spacing.bsky.social podcast, as co-editors @shebuildscities.bsky.social , @zahraeb.bsky.social and @dylanreid.bsky.social discuss genesis of the book and the ideas behind it with host @glynbowerman.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
The Toronto Waterfront Marathon is coming up this weekend. Alex Kharabian talks to the organizers and runners about the marathon experience and what the event can teach us about how we use public spaces. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Running the City - Spacing Toronto
Dawn doesn’t so much break over Toronto on marathon morning as creep in behind the sound of trucks, radios, and zip-ties. Streets that usually hum with commuters now sit in temporary silence, lined wi...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The Toronto Waterfront Marathon is coming up this weekend. Alex Kharabian talks to the organizers and runners about the marathon experience and what the event can teach us about how we use public spaces. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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A joy of co-editing the "Messy Cities" book with @zahraeb.bsky.social, @shebuildscities.bsky.social and @johnlorinc.bsky.social was the free-flowing conversations. @glynbowerman.bsky.social sparked us to revisit those conversations on the @spacing.bsky.social podcast. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess - Spacing Toronto
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone’s needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A joy of co-editing the "Messy Cities" book with @zahraeb.bsky.social, @shebuildscities.bsky.social and @johnlorinc.bsky.social was the free-flowing conversations. @glynbowerman.bsky.social sparked us to revisit those conversations on the @spacing.bsky.social podcast. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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We have a new episode up, and it starts with three of the co-editors of the new book “Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything. Dive into the wonderful world of Messy Urbanism: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess - Spacing Toronto
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone’s needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...
spacing.ca
October 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We have a new episode up, and it starts with three of the co-editors of the new book “Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything. Dive into the wonderful world of Messy Urbanism: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Toronto, Metrolinx, and TTC need to promote Crosstown LRT aggressively so Torontonians stop complaining about it, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #TOpli #ONpoli
spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #TOpli #ONpoli
LORINC: Build it, but will we ride it? - Spacing Toronto
As befits a fall when the Blue Jays have again become contenders, the $10 billion-plus question hanging over the soon-to-be-opened Crosstown LRT is whether it will attract riders. We built it, but wil...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Toronto, Metrolinx, and TTC need to promote Crosstown LRT aggressively so Torontonians stop complaining about it, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #TOpli #ONpoli
spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #TOpli #ONpoli
Check out our latest podcast where we get into the nitty gritty of “messy urbanism.” Plus, how some Toronto laneways are getting a glowup: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess - Spacing Toronto
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone’s needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...
spacing.ca
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Check out our latest podcast where we get into the nitty gritty of “messy urbanism.” Plus, how some Toronto laneways are getting a glowup: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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New @spacingradio.bsky.social episode for you! We have the team behind the book “Messy Cities: Why You Can’t Plan Everything,” we speak to The Laneway Project, and we preview the newest Spacing Magazine: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess - Spacing Toronto
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone’s needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New @spacingradio.bsky.social episode for you! We have the team behind the book “Messy Cities: Why You Can’t Plan Everything,” we speak to The Laneway Project, and we preview the newest Spacing Magazine: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
On our latest @spacingradio.bsky.social podcast, we speak to the co-editors of the new book “Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything.” And we preview the latest issue of the magazine: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess - Spacing Toronto
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone’s needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...
spacing.ca
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
On our latest @spacingradio.bsky.social podcast, we speak to the co-editors of the new book “Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything.” And we preview the latest issue of the magazine: spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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Long walk on Eglinton for the next print issue of Spacing. Some highlights 1/~ (Do you subscribe? It’s not expensive. spacingstore.ca/products/new... )
October 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Long walk on Eglinton for the next print issue of Spacing. Some highlights 1/~ (Do you subscribe? It’s not expensive. spacingstore.ca/products/new... )
Sanctuary was featured in Spacing last year. spacing.ca/toronto/2024...
October 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Sanctuary was featured in Spacing last year. spacing.ca/toronto/2024...
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One of my earliest memories was driving out St Clair to my grandmother's place in Etobicoke past the old Stock Yards. I remember the train tracks, the stock yard pens, the old buildings and the smell.
That drive took us past Wychwood were old PCCs were kept, but that's another story for another day!
That drive took us past Wychwood were old PCCs were kept, but that's another story for another day!
Once upon a time, the Stockyards District was actually stockyards. Photographer Peter MacCallum shares his photos from that era spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Ontario Stockyards, 1991 - Spacing Toronto
The neighbourhood designation “Stockyards District” evokes indistinct memories of what for much of the twentieth century was one of Toronto’s most concentrated zones of heavy industry. Sadly, nothing ...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of my earliest memories was driving out St Clair to my grandmother's place in Etobicoke past the old Stock Yards. I remember the train tracks, the stock yard pens, the old buildings and the smell.
That drive took us past Wychwood were old PCCs were kept, but that's another story for another day!
That drive took us past Wychwood were old PCCs were kept, but that's another story for another day!
Once upon a time, the Stockyards District was actually stockyards. Photographer Peter MacCallum shares his photos from that era spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Ontario Stockyards, 1991 - Spacing Toronto
The neighbourhood designation “Stockyards District” evokes indistinct memories of what for much of the twentieth century was one of Toronto’s most concentrated zones of heavy industry. Sadly, nothing ...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Once upon a time, the Stockyards District was actually stockyards. Photographer Peter MacCallum shares his photos from that era spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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"Relying on pedestrians getting killed or injured in order to identify danger spots is hardly in keeping with a Vision Zero policy." From @dylanreid.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2023...
REID: The pedestrian blood sacrifice - Spacing Toronto
In the early 2000s, I moved into a new condo building in the Garment District south-west of Queen and Spadina. The area had been mostly an employment area for decades, but thanks to the innovative “Ki...
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September 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"Relying on pedestrians getting killed or injured in order to identify danger spots is hardly in keeping with a Vision Zero policy." From @dylanreid.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2023...