In British Columbia, ordinary homeowners pay annual property taxes—and when they buy a home, they pay Property Transfer Tax.

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Singapore often appears as a paradox—both widely admired and deeply critiqued. It is a city-state that epitomizes precision ...

There’s a glaring irony about the city’s messily disintegrating priority bus lane plan, which landed at executive committee ...

Public space is a dynamic and essential part of our collective urban experience. Streets, parks, plazas, and beaches serve as the everyday settings where ...

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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, ...

Why do we have a housing crisis? Let me count the ways: Low interest rates, restrictive zoning, permissive zoning, contractor shortages, building material costs, over-reliance on markets, ...

In 1972, Leslie Martin and Lionel March published Urban Space and Structure—an influential book featuring a series of essays written in the late 60s exploring the question of what building forms make ...

This essay is a sequel to Natasha Henry’s account of the history of enslavement of Black people in Canada prior to 1834, published in Spacing last month. Black Canadians deserve a formal apology for ...

Every week this summer Francesca Bouaoun has launched her kayak at Ontario Place to check on the trees. They’re a stand of 850 trees planted 54 years ago by landscape architect Michael Hough on the ...