Sound is both inevitable and necessary in the city – we live close together, we need to build and maintain buildings and infrastructure, we need to socialize, we need to get around.

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 …

Jun 26, 2023 · What is Floor Space Ratio (FSR) and how does it interact with building setbacks and height regulations to create building forms and the ‘look and feel’ of a place? Having covered why residential density is it so confusing and the difference between net and gross density, it’s worth going into how regulations related to densityContinue reading "S101S—Understanding Residential Density ...

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 ...

Feb 6, 2023 · What is residential density and why is it so confusing? Residential density is critical to urban planning. It refers to the number of people living in a specific area and is significant because it helps us understand how densely populated an area is. It’s also very controversial. In certain folks, increasing density evokes fear aboutContinue reading "S101S – …

Dec 9, 2024 · EDITOR’S NOTE: With affordable housing debates raging, misinformation is everywhere.Trickle-down housing narratives loom large in the used-and-abused language littering media—with references to Alain Bertaud’s Order Without Design being particularly popular. Unfortunately, most references to the latter under the guise of “conventional economics” are incomplete, at best.

A city’s arts form an ecosystem. It’s easy to focus on the big features – the trees, as it were – but the true health of the system lies in the understory, in the buzz of life at the ground level, in the shoots springing up and creatures hustling in the earth that supports the larger structures.

Feb 1, 2024 · The federal Liberals spent a good chunk of January fixating on foreign students, and how Canadian universities and colleges have become addicted to the full-freight tuition they’re required to pay. Said students, the government contends, have placed an outsized burden on Canada’s buckling housing market. They are also forced to live in abysmal conditions. TheContinue reading "LORINC: The ...

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"

Jun 14, 2024 · Information matters….and so does context. So, as the City of Vancouver embarks on four open houses related to the Broadway Plan over the next week and a half, we want to share the wonderful information in the interactive map below. Updated to June 12, 2024—and continually refreshed—it shows the active rezoning applications and possible sites for rezoning for the Broadway Plan.