Nov 11, 2024 · Editor’s Note: Many residents are unaware—and some are unpleasantly surprised—that the Broadway Plan allows for high-rise towers on quiet back streets of single-family homes and duplexes, many with only one traffic lane. This discovery has fueled concerns across the Plan’s extensive 500-block area, particularly since many affordable rental housing units are being demolished to ...

Oct 11, 2024 · The morning was overcast, but the mood was bright as our group of visiting BC Planners emerged from the Metro station into El Poblenou, Catalan for “new village.” It was a special day. We had ventured beyond the typical tourist spots into the southeast of the Eixample to learn about Barcelona’s innovative Superilla—or “Superblock”—initiative. This …

Dec 23, 2024 · The Architectural Institute of British Columbia has transitioned its achievement awards to the Architectural Foundation of BC (AFBC).. Since 2021, the rebranded AFBC has undertaken the program which includes the Lieutenant Governor (LG) Awards—an institution that the AIBC had run for several decades. Kudos must go to the AFBC board for their ongoing efforts to which we can now add the AFBC ...

Oct 31, 2024 · This article is published in conjunction with issue #68 of Spacing magazine, which is focused on the state of the arts in Toronto. Look for it soon on the shelves of your local bookstore, or in your mailbox if you are a subscriber. Artists are increasingly being displaced from Toronto, and cultural spaces are closingContinue reading …

Nov 11, 2024 · With Premier Doug Ford’s repeated promises to rip up bike lanes in Toronto, and possibly even other Ontario cities and towns, we’ve decided to dive deep into why and what that might mean for the future or road safety and city planning. We have a panel discussion featuring Cycle Toronto Executive Director Michael Longfied andContinue reading "PODCAST: Spacing Radio 083, The War on Bikes"

Oct 28, 2024 · Social cohesion, environmental health, and industrial development are paramount characteristics to sculpting a sustainable community. Yet a recent, ground-breaking report by a graduate student at Simon Fraser University found zoning restrictions are largely exacerbating British Columbia’s erratic housing costs and supply shortage. With an interdisciplinary knowledge of geography and ...

Oct 23, 2024 · Kensington Market: Heart of the City is a neighbourhood documentary that’s been in the making since 2016. “It’s really a look into the heart of the city of Toronto, how it came to be, the state that it is today and what it will become in the future,” says director Stuart Clarfield, a Toronto resident and community advocate.

Oct 1, 2024 · In the spring of 1984, the social historian and curator Rosemary Donegan commissioned me to take contemporary architectural photos and panoramic views of Spadina Avenue for a planned exhibition. The exhibition, Spadina Avenue: A Photohistory took place later that year at A Space, an artist-run gallery located at 204 Spadina – an appropriate venue forContinue reading "The Lives of 233–235 ...

Oct 25, 2024 · A lot of good reasons against Ontario premier Doug Ford’s plans to not only block many planned bike lanes but rip up some existing one have been put forward, based on safety and travel efficiency, and even main street vitality.But there’s another angle too, and that’s how it messes up Toronto’s planning for adding housing for thousands of new residents (intensification, it …

Rising High, Falling Short: Introduction. The Introduction to a continual series looking critically at high-rise urbanism and its broader impacts.