Spacing Magazine

Spacing Magazine

Spacing is a magazine based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It addresses topics related to the public space both locally in Toronto and on a national level, releasing two issues each year. Initially produced by the Toronto Public Space Committee, Spacing became an independent publication after its inaugural issue.

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#884948

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#50811

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  • 1 week ago | spacing.ca | Erick Villagomez

    In the 1960s, planning decisions in Vancouver—like many North American cities—were made behind closed doors. Freeways bulldozed working-class neighbourhoods. “Urban renewal” was synonymous with demolition. Public input wasn’t sought; it was treated as an impediment. But Vancouver residents pushed back. They stopped a planned freeway, saved Strathcona, and gradually reoriented the city’s planning culture around community participation.

  • 2 weeks ago | spacing.ca | Erick Villagomez

    Authors: Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash (Actar, 2023)In an era of mounting ecological urgency and deepening social inequity, it has never been more critical to examine how buildings participate in global systems of impact—environmental, economic, and political. A House Deconstructed by Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash responds to this imperative with conceptual boldness and accessible clarity.

  • 3 weeks ago | spacing.ca | Glyn Bowerman

    In this episode, with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pick of former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson as Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, we reached out to longtime urban affairs writer Frances Bula to learn about Robertson’s housing legacy, and how he might approach his new job. And we speak to Howard Tam, a city builder and founder of Eat More Scarborough food tours about the variety and quality of cuisine there, and how the people of Scarborough are taking back their own story.

  • 1 month ago | spacing.ca | John Lorinc

    Giant hairy-chested capital projects have an uncanny ability to commandeer public attention — the latest choice example, of course, is the Big Doug, about which there has and will be much commentary (including from yours truly). Necessary, on one hand, because this insane scheme deserves as much light as possible to dissuade decision-makers. Yet all the tunnel chatter takes away from the equally critical debate about alternatives that might reduce the horrendous congestion along Highway 401.

  • 1 month ago | spacing.ca | John Lorinc

    At a time when Washington has launched a scorched earth attack on virtually all federal climate policies, the Ford government’s hyper-partisan campaign to tear out Toronto bike lanes feels, well, positively Trumpian. Turns out we’re not entirely alone in the Jurassic Park club.