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New provincial proposals for modernizing e-bike rules are timely, writes @albertkoehl.bsky.social spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
Another fun one for @spacing.bsky.social
I used @torontoopendata.cityof.toronto.ca, scraped school facilities data and looked online at larger facilities to create a map of pitches across the city. This is for a special issue of Spacing Magazine on Toronto Soccer.
#maps #mapping #gis #toronto
Social prescribing connects people to non-medical sources of health and wellbeing: nature, arts, movement, community, each other. Kate Mulligan shares what the Bentway, the High Line, and Madrid Río taught her about health and belonging in public spaces spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
About the University Avenue bike lanes, @lanrickbennett.bsky.social shows the evidence does not support the negative narrative some are peddling spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
The former National Rubber plant in the Junction was demolished earlier this year. Photographer Peter MacCallum traces its rise and fall over the decades, and celebrates the workers who made the plant run. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
Tim Kocur of the Waterfront Business Improvement Area (BIA) has interesting ideas for the Rees Park project on a current waterfront parking lot, as a potential focus for events and gatherings. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
Essentially the same as what @spacing.bsky.social shared a few weeks ago via @iandarragh.bsky.social
In @spacing.bsky.social's Waterfront issue last year, I wrote about what an embarrassment it was that the Amsterdam Bridge had been decrepit for years. Getting it fixed is at least one long-term benefit from hosting the World Cup. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...
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Broken and boarded up no more, Toronto's Amsterdam Bridge is back — just in time for the World Cup.
This article is co-authored with Muskan Fatima. E-bikes are good for our cities. They offer reliable transportation for people of all ages and abilities. They are quiet and energy efficient. They don’...
This spring, at Bloomberg CityLab in Madrid, social prescribing reached the agenda of the world’s largest cities summit for the first time. It was a breakout session rather than a main-stage event, bu...
In February, 2026 a friend who lives in the Junction emailed me to report that demolition had begun at the site of the former National Rubber factory on Cawthra Avenue. Having already produced an exte...
The waterfront as an east-west canvas for events and animation in Toronto will show its potential like never before during the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Not just the main stadium at Exhibition Place an...
Over the past year, I have written multiple times about how misinformation and selective framing continue shaping Toronto’s transportation debates. In previous Spacing op-eds including Pedaling Inaccu...
Report to next week’s Planning & Housing Committee includes an analysis of the province’s airport expansion plan, with the caveat that a lot of details are TBD. City is working off basis that runway would be extended westwards.
Here’s how that would look. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
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THIS EPISODE: When Policy Pauses Public Ownership We’ve spoken a lot about community land trusts in this series, and it’s been gaining momentum in cities and towns all over Canada. But there are some ...
Church Street in the Village should be pedestrianized, argues @chanface.bsky.social . He shares the story of the campaign to get it started with a temporary pedestrianization of two blocks this summer. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
It’s evening in Toronto’s Gay Village and the sidewalks are bustling with people. The air is warm and electric. People sweaty from the dance floor pop out of bars onto the sidewalk, glowing with joy f...
