S101S – Understanding Residential Density: Why is it so Confusing?
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 – …
Robarts Library, an architectural oral history - Spacing Toronto
Nov 30, 2023 · 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, covering 1,036,000 square feet, housing nearly 3 million volumes and providing space for 4,100 users. Even then, its Brutalist raw concrete aesthetic, massiveContinue reading "Robarts Library, an ...
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2024 | Issue 66 Street Furniture. 2023 | Issue 65 20th anniversary issue. 2023 | Issue 64 Writers of the City. 2023 | Issue 63 Fire!. 2023 | Issue 62 The Ontario Line. 2022 | Issue 61 Ontario Place. 2022 | Issue 60 City Election Issues, 2022. 2022 | Issue 59 Rain. 2021 | Issue 58 Growth. 2021 | Issue 57 Optimism!. 2021 | Issue 56 The Public Health Issue. 2020 | …
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Follow the money to Ontario Place. The auditor-general's scathing review of the Therme deal once again raises questions about the source of the spa's cash
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Spacing is an award-winning magazine that reveals the joys and obstacles of today's urban landscape. The magazine has become a leading voice, both locally and nationally, about how to build a healthy, sustainable, and vibrant city. Each issue of Spacing presents an abundance of creative ideas from ...
Ever wonder how a house gets an address number?
Mar 11, 2013 · I got burned by my lack of understanding of Toronto’s numbering system shortly after I moved here. I had to pick up a package at an address that was about 154 Front St, and being familiar with the X-hundred block numbering systems of Vancouver and my home town, I assumed that meant it was just a block or two from Yonge St, and that I could just quickly walk there from the subway station ...
A Century After 1914: Vancouver’s War Memorials
Nov 7, 2014 · Across Canada there are over 6,000 monuments and cenotaphs dedicated to remembering those who fought in the Great War (1914-18). This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the beginning of this devastating conflict.
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THE BIG BOOK OF SPACING. The Big Book of Spacing — 248 full-colour pages! — takes the best content from our magazine, website, and books from the last 20 years and gives them a second life. The articles in this book trace both our magazine’s and city’s evolution. To give the features more depth, we approached each writer and …
From the Stacks: The Ethical Architect - Spacing National
Nov 2, 2019 · “Architects live and work today in a functioning but weakened profession that lacks a dominant design ethic. An opportunity to examine unquestioned assumptions regarding the morality of professional practice and the value of design has emerged. The past can be mined both for its good ideas and for its bad examples, and a future ofContinue reading "From the Stacks: The Ethical Architect ...
Sean Ruthen, Author at Spacing National
By Sean Ruthen. Notes from Britain. For the past two decades, Spacing contributor Sean Ruthen has written several architectural travelogues on places near and far – here in Canada from...