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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Almost two decades before the first video game found its way into an arcade, the Canadian National Exhibition hosted a strange electronic device with an brightly lit scoreboard. It read: “computer ...

Shadow study with full shadow lengths provided outside the initial frame chosen by Perkins & Will for the 1780 E. Broadway proposal. Shadow studies often get lost amid the seemingly more pressing ...

Following last week’s revelations about “Project South” — a far-ranging probe into police corruption that netted indictments against seven Toronto cops, one retired officer and three other suspensions ...

It’s been a bad month for place-keeping in Kensington Market. First the Kensington Market Community Land Trust’s (KMCLT) attempt to purchase two buildings on a stretch of Kensington Avenue threatened ...