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Friends’ Friends Sweep Jane Jacobs Prize Awards This year the Jane Jacobs Prize was awarded to two recipients with close connections to the Friends of Fort York: Cathy Nasmith and the editorial team at Spacing magazine. Cathy was a director of the Friends from 1995 to 2004, while Matt Blackett, the publisher of Spacing, sits on the board currently. As well, Shawn Micallef, a senior editor at Spacing, is a member of the Fort York Management Board. Cathy was recognized for an impressive list of achievements in the heritage field including introducing Doors Open to Toronto and North America in 2000, organizing support for amending the Ontario Heritage Act in 2005, serving as president of the Architectural Conservancy from 2007-09, when she found time also to start and edit Built Heritage News, a free e-newsletter. In 165 issues to date it has covered a wide variety of situations and issues across Canada and beyond. Matt and his colleagues founded Spacing in 2003 as a quarterly magazine dedicated to examining Toronto’s public spaces–its streets, sidewalks, laneways, parks, ravines, green spaces, transit, walking patterns, and underground systems. They have made an art of observing carefully how the city works and drawing parallels with other places by way of gently urging us to set our sights higher. The Jane Jacobs Prize is an annual award that celebrates those who contribute to the fabric of Toronto life in unique ways that exemplify the ideas of Jane Jacobs. Each recipient receives $5,000 each year for three years to spend in any way he or she chooses.
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