Book · Scorgie Planning Press
The Space Between
How Cities Manage Change at their Edges
A closer look at the places where growth expectations meet established neighbourhoods and planning judgment carries the uncertainty.
Some of the hardest planning questions arise just beyond a main street, near transit or at the edge of a familiar neighbourhood. The Space Between examines these recurring conditions, where a proposal may be workable but expectations about scale, proximity and change remain unsettled.
Drawing on practice, teaching and policy work in Toronto, Blair Scorgie develops the idea of transition zones as a way to see those edges more clearly. The book follows how ambiguity shapes individual decisions and asks when a difficult project reveals a problem in the framework used to assess it.
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CONTENTS Preface...............................................................................................................1 Chapter 1: Introduction.................................................................................3 Chapter 2: How The Edge Became Visible...............................................8 Chapter 3: When The Framework Began To Strain...............................12 Chapter 4: When Ambiguity Began To Carry A Cost...........................18 Chapter 5: From Discretion To Expectation...........................................24 Chapter 6: When Transition Becomes Reality.........................................32 Chapter 7: Making Transition Operative..................................................38 Chapter 8: The Risks Of Naming The Edge...........................................43 Chapter 9: Holding Transition Open........................................................48 Chapter 10: Beyond Toronto.....................................................................53 Chapter 11: What The Edge Asks Of Us.................................................57 Chapter 12: What The Edge Makes Possible..........................................62 Chapter 13: A Coda On Attention............................................................68 Methodology..................................................................................................73 Interlude 1: One Block Off The Avenue.................................................75 Interlude 2: The Depth Of The Corridor................................................78 Interlude 3: The Hearing That Wasn’t About A Building.....................81 Interlude 4: The Zoning Change That Didn’t Name Itself...................84 Interlude 5: The Neighbourhood Study That Couldn’t Quite Say Where.............................................................................................................. 87 Application.....................................................................................................90 Author.............................................................................................................93
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