A variety of things went wrong.” The Globe’s unflattering verdict noted that Cliff was not as enthralling to watch as Marley, ...

By Toronto standards, it is a borderline miracle that the Trillium ferry is still operational. Built in 1910, two years ...

Does the City of Toronto see its network of sidewalks as transportation infrastructure? Officially, the answer is yes.

When Reinier de Graaf published Four Walls and a Roof in 2017, it stood out for its rare willingness to expose architecture’s contradictions from within the profession itself. Architecture appeared ...

The much-anticipated final volume in the critically acclaimed series, New York 2020 explores the planning and politics of building the city in the first decades of the 21st century. More than 2,000 ...

The edifice of economic theory constructed over the last two centuries, to an extent in the shadow of physics, has been refuted time and again.” — Michael Batty, Inventing Future Cities Everywhere you ...

The October 2026 Toronto election may seem like a long way off, but intentions to run have already been declared and campaign plans are well underway. So we asked Spacing co-founder and Toronto Star ...

When the University of Toronto’s John P. Robarts Research Library, located at St. George and Harbord streets, opened its doors in 1973, it was the largest academic library building in the world, ...

UBC professor of landscape architecture and urban design Patrick Condon discusses his provocative new book. Photos supplied. [Editor’s Note: Patrick Condon is a well-respected voice on local planning ...

"Fish Market, Toronto," Joseph Clayton Bentley, 1837. Credit: Toronto Public Library. This article is published in conjunction with Spacing issue 71, which focuses on Toronto’s waterfront. The issue ...

When Sidewalk Labs rolled into Toronto in 2017, there was no ambiguity about the corporate family tree. Sidewalk officials repeatedly said the smart city start-up venture was a kind of mash-up: Google ...

If you walk, bicycle or drive along Millwood Road along the edge of the Don Valley, a fringe of greenery hides the moonscape below. There are huge clearcuts where heavy machinery has logged over ...