I recently found myself wandering Commercial Drive, reading between its pulsing cafés and restaurants. An empty storefront.

I’m old enough to remember when Brad Bradford’s pungent symbol of Toronto’s urban decay was the apparently misnamed Sankofa ...

When I first reviewed Donald Elliott’s A Better Way to Zone almost fifteen years ago, I began with a simple observation: ...

The headline image is a composite image showing the former Neighbourhood Centres (gold), which received broad community support as part of implementing the CityPlan directions (1995), overlaid with ...

Amazingly and shockingly, after years of public hand-wringing in Canada about the inflationary consequences of ...

What is public space for? Most planners would answer with some combination of safety, accessibility, mobility, and democratic ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier David Eby recently announced a plan to purchase vacant condominium units and convert ...

This story is published in conjunction with Spacing’s upcoming “summer reading” issue, which will be available on bookstore ...

Walk through a neighbourhood with someone who grew up there, and the stories start. The diner that used to be on that corner. The whole block that looked completely different. There is nostalgia in it ...

If you’ve heard people talking about Vancouver’s proposed Villages Plan and wondered what all the fuss is about, you’re not alone. The idea sounds simple enough. The City wants to create 17 “village” ...

There is a version of city-building that planners often imagine, if not quietly hope for. A place where vision aligns with implementation. Where institutions work in concert rather than at cross ...