The collaboration of music and architecture is having its moment. This past month, ORO Editions released Music and ...

Four years ago, ABC Vancouver won a commanding majority at City Hall. This October, voters elected a very different government, leaving ABC with just one council seat. It is tempting to read that ...

Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside ...

A week ago, I saw a widely shared photo of a pair of cyclist demonstrators planted in the middle of the now destroyed Bloor West bike lane, staring down a phalanx of cops, and my very first thought ...

At the beginning of September, as Toronto’s municipal election began ramping up, the city was hit with another 100-year storm. It was the fourth such storm in the past 15 years. In parts of the city, ...

On Wednesday night, Heritage Toronto announced the winners of the 51st Annual Heritage Toronto Awards, presented by Aird & Berlis. Six winners were named from 75 nominees in three categories: Book, ...

This article is part of a series by Christopher Balkaran on ways to approach and engage with the municipal election campaign. This past week, the two leading mayoral candidates, Brad Bradford and ...

This article is reproduced from Spacing‘s current “Issues & Influencers” issue focused on the municipal election and what comes after, now in the mail to subscribers and available in select stores.

I spent some time in the past couple of weeks in London and Paris, and there’s an emerging point of contrast between these two alpha-cities that has become impossible to ignore. Similar in size, ...

In the book I recently co-edited, Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything, we didn’t get any contributions about public transit. The book explores the role of improvisation, randomness, and variety ...

Remember Wicked: For Good? This time last year the internet buzzed with analysis of the trailer before the second movie hit theatres. Now, as spooky season approaches, it’s worth re-examining the ...

Hwahongmun Gate sits where the Suwoncheon stream passes through the northern wall of Hwaseong Fortress, with seven arches spanning the water. Built of stone and brick in the 1790s, it is one of the ...