It sometimes seems that the endless civic debate over the second life of Old City Hall began not long after E.J. Lennox ...

From where I sit, Doug Ford’s triumphalist yodelling this week about the Toronto Islands airport sounds much less like an ...

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In the leadup to Toronto hosting World Cup games in June 2026, we will be publishing stories about soccer in Toronto, ...

The Origins of Our Discontents offers one of the most compelling reframings of inequality in recent public discourse. Rather than treating racism as a matter of prejudice or individual belief, ...

View of Burrard Street from Pender Street in May, 1979. Item # CVA 780-45. In 1979, a former premier and a local hockey star passed away. It was also the ...

One of Spacing’s favorite civic events is the Heritage Toronto Awards night at the Carlu. It’s a night when Toronto boosters, architecture ...

Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside ...

Blair Scorgie is a Toronto-based Registered Professional Planner and Urban Designer. He is the Managing Principal of Scorgie Planning, and a Sessional Lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University.