Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.
After a visit to the neighbourly east coast, Erin O’Connell asks the question are our cities over-fenced? In doing so she opens up an interesting debate about why we fence and what the implications are for our communities.
The second instalment of Spacing Ottawa’s Gowalla walking tours was posted this week, this time focusing on the Chinatown neighbourhood. Gowalla tours allow users to follow a walking tour from their smartphone.
Crystal Melville used Valentine’s Day to collect testimonials from readers about how and where they have found love for and in the city.
Emma Feltes discusses the results of the recently held bikeways forum by four of Halifax’s largest institutional land users on how to create better bike infrastructure in the institutional district of the city.
Dylan Reid provides a fascinating look inside the transportation talk that took place at last week’s GTA Summit. Discussion ranged from bold ideas on how to empower Metrolinx to expressions of hope for the implementation of the region-wide Presto fare card.
As Toronto struggles with ‘war on the car’ rhetoric, Jake Schabis reports on similar push back happening to new bike infrastructure all over New York City and that city’s different political response.
Spacing Montreal talked a lot about heritage preservation this week. Alanah Heffez discusses how some of the most important victories in heritage preservation come in the form of procedural victories rather than simply preserving postcard settings. On the other hand Guillaume St-Jean posted some striking photography of the demolition of Saint Sauveur Church.
Devin Alfro follows the history of the migrations of Montreal’s most prestigious neighbourhoods and the wake of opulent architecture this migration has left in its path.