Sabat Ismail (SI) met with Rachel Wang, Sylver Sterling, and Jess Nachman, creators and editors of the Journey Lines zine, to ...

The way spaces are designed influences how people socialize, build community, and go about their day-to-day lives, directly ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I rediscovered Ontario Place during the pandemic and started going there a lot with my friends,” said Weinstein. “I became a bit obsessed with how it retained its magic through the decades even ...

On July 2023, refugees from Africa, newly arrived in Canada seeking asylum and protection, camped and slept on the sidewalk in front of the City of Toronto’s Shelter Referral Centre on Peter Street.

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, ...

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is more than just a means to a destination, it is also a shared space where passengers from all walks of life come onto trains and buses together. Poems in Passage ...

This story is published in conjunction with Spacing issue 70 (Spring 2025), “Civic Memories,” whose cover section focuses on Toronto collectors and collections. Amidst war stories and gloomy weather ...

In the intricate machinery of urban governance, one figure looms large but largely out of sight: the City Manager. Appointed by City Council, not elected by the public, this individual is the city’s ...

Location, location, location is the old saying about what matters in real estate. But what if you combined location, with architecture, and terrific views, as Joseph (Joe) Medwecki did at 190 St.