{"id":519,"date":"2009-10-21T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingatlantic.ca\/?p=519"},"modified":"2013-01-21T04:58:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T08:58:48","slug":"world-wide-wednesday-urban-golf-a-snowless-city-and-1-million-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2009\/10\/21\/world-wide-wednesday-urban-golf-a-snowless-city-and-1-million-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wide Wednesday: Urban golf, a snowless city and 1 million trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/100\/298249825_34180fd3b4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-world-wednesday.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Each week Spacing focuses on blogs and web sites from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On the topic of\u00a0 &#8220;play&#8221; in the city, <a href=\"http:\/\/pruned.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Pruned Blog<\/a> also features a great post about the potential and symbolism behind the sport of <a href=\"http:\/\/pruned.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/urban-golf.html\" target=\"_self\">urban golf<\/a> where players &#8220;tee off on the street, sidewalks, alleys or on top of buildings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urlesque.com\/2009\/09\/10\/the-worlds-coolest-bus-stops\/\" target=\"_self\">urlesque.com for a slide-show of the world&#8217;s coolest bus stops<\/a>&#8211;from an air-conditioned stop in Dubai to the world&#8217;s tallest stop in North Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 While Torontonians struggle through snow and slush this winter,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1930822,00.html\" target=\"_self\">Moscow residents may get a respite from their normally heavy snowfall<\/a>. The city&#8217;s mayor is vowing to pay the Russian army to spray a fine chemical mist over clouds hovering near the capital, resulting in snow falling outside the city&#8217;s boundaries (onto neighbouring suburbs).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Since Denver Metro passed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtd-fastracks.com\/main_1\" target=\"_self\">FasTracks<\/a> in 2004\u00a0  ($4.7 billion in sales tax funding for 19 miles of light rail)\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncurrent.com\/notes\/2009\/10\/denver-nearly-doubles-public-t.html\" target=\"_self\">transit ridership in the area has doubled<\/a>. Interestingly, the increase happened <em>despite<\/em> the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncurrent.com\/notes\/2009\/10\/denver-nearly-doubles-public-t.html\" target=\"_self\">not one line of the proposed rail was ever built<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New York&#8217;s boroughs are poised to become veritable urban forests as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milliontreesnyc.org\/html\/home\/home.shtml\" target=\"_self\">MillonTreesNYC<\/a> has enthusiastically begun its campaign to plant 1-million trees across the five boroughs by 2017. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-trees15-2009oct15,0,5387890.story?page=2\" target=\"_self\">LA Times,<\/a> the program, which has already resulted in the planting of hundreds of thousands of trees, is not without its detractors (some who have taken violent action against the new trees).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Urban dwellers in three UK cities (Ateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough) <a href=\"http:\/\/pruned.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/great-street-games.html\" target=\"_self\">will get the chance to play games and compete with each other<\/a> &#8220;virtually in real-time over four nights using the city as platform&#8221;.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatstreetgames.org.uk\/\" target=\"_self\">Great Street Games<\/a> (created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kma.co.uk\/\" target=\"_self\">KMA<\/a>) will use projected light and thermal-imaging technology to create a &#8220;court&#8221; in which the players&#8217; movements effect the movement of the light.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/f-r-a-n-k\/\" target=\"_self\">Frank Hebbert<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week Spacing focuses on blogs and web sites from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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