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 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 ...

Very sad news today. After a long illness that he fought longer and harder than any doctor expected, Toronto has lost Will Munro. Will was a cultural ...

I live-blogged an interesting conference last week at the University of Toronto Law School called “Is there Planning Law or just City ...

Rent Control and Rent Hikes In Ontario, we have rent control on buildings occupied before November 15, 2018. That means the landlords for these buildings can only raise rents for current tenants once ...

As we get down to crunch time on the tax vote, both sides of the debate are gearing up for one last push. Today Mayor David Miller announced a panel of ...

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 ...

“I grew up on the outskirts of Saint John, and then began my art practice in the centre of it. The city for me came to be defined as conservative ...

Spacing has collected the predictions from a variety of Torontonians on who will win the Nathan Phillips Square re-design competition. The winner will be ...

After years of relatively mild winters, the darkest season is once again bringing sustained cold and abundant snow to Canadian cities. And if spring excites thoughts of romance in some of us, then ...