{"id":10255,"date":"2011-05-11T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=10255"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:05:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:05:03","slug":"world-wide-wednesday-brisbane-carparks-and-nfl-navel-gazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/05\/11\/world-wide-wednesday-brisbane-carparks-and-nfl-navel-gazing\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wide Wednesday: Brisbane Carparks and NFL Navel Gazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19812\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=19812\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Car Park\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5101699303_f7132bcde6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-17174\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=17174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-world-wednesday\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/feature-world-wednesday1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>Each week we will be focusing on blogs 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/08\/business\/08baker.html?_r=1 \" target=\"_self\">New York Times<\/a> offers an interesting portrait of Richard A. Baker &#8211; CEO of retail giants, Lord &amp; Taylor and the Hudson&#8217;s Bay Company. The piece offers a fascinating window into the financial and land use power Baker exerts through his retail property holdings in the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0PriceWaterhouse Coopers and the Partnership for New York City offer yet another ranking of the global metropolises. Perhaps more important than the individual results, VP Merrill Pond concludes, &#8220;a great city is all about growing, retaining and attracting talent. Whether it&#8217;s Stockholm with its strong education system or Toronto benefiting from its smart immigration policies, getting and keeping talent matters.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2011\/05\/the-worlds-26-best-cities-for-business-life-and-innovation\/238436\/ \" target=\"_self\">The Atlantic<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Toronto city councillor, Doug Ford, is game to attract more talent to Hogtown. The rookie councillor raised the ire of New Orleans NFL fans when he suggested that their franchise might be better suited to Toronto and named a number of possible sites for a regulation-sized stadium. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/doug-ford-apologizes-to-new-orleans-football-fans\/article2013507\/ \" target=\"_self\">Globe and Mail<\/a>)<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0&#8220;The rumours have been circulating on the streets and online for months that the Eternal City is facing imminent destruction,&#8221; says the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-13354988 \" target=\"_self\">BBC<\/a>. A persistent rumour predicting an earthquake in Rome on May 11, 2011 is causing many to flee the city and others to pre-emptively take the day off.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0While some cities, such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2011\/05\/10\/dcp-likely-to-propose-lower-parking-minimums-for-nycs-inner-ring\/ \" target=\"_self\">New York<\/a>, plan to reduce minimum parking requirements, Brisbane, Australia moves to increase the minimums for commercial buildings. &#8220;Under the amendments to the Transport, Access, Parking and Servicing Planning Scheme Policy, the number of car parks in commercial developments in areas including Milton, Kangaroo Point, Woolloongabba, Auchenflower, Kelvin Grove and Toowong, will be doubled&#8221;. Bicycle parking, showers and lockers are also now mandated in large commercial developments. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/queensland\/changes-to-ease-innercity-parking-squeeze-20110511-1ehtc.html \" target=\"_self\">Brisbane Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div><em>Image from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brizmako\/5101699303\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>getinmyschnapon<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>Do you have a World Wide Wednesday worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to www@spacing.ca<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week we will be focusing on blogs 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. \u2022\u00a0The\u00a0New York Times offers an interesting portrait of Richard A. Baker &#8211; CEO of retail giants, Lord &amp; Taylor<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/05\/11\/world-wide-wednesday-brisbane-carparks-and-nfl-navel-gazing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;World Wide Wednesday: Brisbane Carparks and NFL Navel Gazing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7834],"tags":[6277,2116,1260,6276,6274,283,5757,1268,2297,6271,1277,2209,6273,6272,1466,6275,6270,6279,352,744,6278,6268,6267,6269,274,6011,1964,578,152,307,2849,146],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-atlantic","tag-australia","tag-bbc","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-times","tag-canada","tag-car-parks","tag-ceo","tag-city-councillor","tag-doug-ford","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-hogtown","tag-hudsons-bay-company","tag-kelvin-grove","tag-location","tag-lord-taylor","tag-merrill-pond","tag-national-football-league","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nfl","tag-retail-giants","tag-retail-property-holdings","tag-richard-a-baker","tag-rome","tag-rookie-councillor","tag-stockholm","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-toronto","tag-united-states","tag-vp","tag-world-wide-wednesday"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World Wide Wednesday: Brisbane Carparks and NFL Navel Gazing  - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/05\/11\/world-wide-wednesday-brisbane-carparks-and-nfl-navel-gazing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Wide Wednesday: Brisbane Carparks and NFL Navel Gazing  - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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