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, ...

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

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.

As Astral’s wretched street furniture deal limps towards its inevitable conclusion, Toronto’s litter bins are back in the ...

In the leadup to Toronto hosting World Cup games in June 2026, we will be publishing stories about soccer in Toronto, culminating with our upcoming Spring issue that focuses on how the game plays out ...

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 ...

In this podcast we embrace the winter (well, for at least half of the episode): Spacing Radio producer Mieke Anderson gets to the bottom of how the city ...

The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design will be screening The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces this Thursday, March 12 at 6:30pm at 1 Spadina Crescent, in partnership with ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mark Wilson and Prince Charles touring the mouth of the Don River, 1991 In the coming weeks, Waterfront Toronto crews will remove the final plug in the new Lower Don, thereby allowing the river to ...

This essay is a sequel to Natasha Henry’s account of the history of enslavement of Black people in Canada prior to 1834, published in Spacing last month. Black Canadians deserve a formal apology for ...