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There’s a glaring irony about the city’s messily disintegrating priority bus lane plan, which landed at executive committee ...
The crisis in Vancouver’s housing system isn’t explosive—it’s quiet, procedural, and often disguised as progress. Recently ...
Modular toilets inspired by mushrooms? A place to go where you can also grab an espresso? Multicolour toilets that become ...
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** ...
Modular toilets inspired by mushrooms? A place to go where you can also grab an espresso? Multicolour toilets that become ...
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, ...
Urbanarium has just announced the winners of The Mixing Middle competition, which sought innovative mixed–use designs for four Metro Vancouver communities: Surrey, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, and ...
Today we bring you the fourth in a series of neighbourhood photo essays by Spacing Ottawa contributor Christopher Ryan, as we take a stroll down Main Street. Be sure to check back to see where Chris ...
Shadow studies often get lost amid the seemingly more pressing issues related to current urban planning and design. However, the relevance of shadow studies has only grown, as cities face increasingly ...
When Sidewalk Labs rolled into Toronto in 2017, there was no ambiguity about the corporate family tree. Sidewalk officials repeatedly said the smart city start-up venture was a kind of mash-up: Google ...
For far too long, many people have considered family life and urban life as being mutually exclusive. That trend is slowly reversing, as more and more parents choose to raise their kids in urban areas ...
The Ontario government’s proposal to cannibalize Ontario Place by building a monstrous, for-profit spa on public land will destroy a waterfront ecology that has matured over the last half century. Yes ...