{"id":12133,"date":"2011-10-08T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T18:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=12133"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:22","slug":"spacing-saturday-french-highways-yaletown-park-and-collective-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/10\/08\/spacing-saturday-french-highways-yaletown-park-and-collective-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: French Highways, Yaletown Park and Collective Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts    from across Spacing\u2019s blog            network in Vancouver, Toronto,  Montreal,   Ottawa, and the  Atlantic           region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1367\/533598036_397d12c2c3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ss\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"so\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clive Doucet continues his<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/10\/06\/cities-with-no-highways-and-highways-with-no-debt-whats-wrong-with-france\/\"> observations from Europe<\/a> using the French model of privately funded tolled highways as basis for   discussing the shape that nations take as a result of the long term   philosophies and decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Commemorating the recent passing of Elmaks, an artist who did much to enliven public space in Ottawa, Spacing re-posts an <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/10\/04\/farewell-to-elmaks-creator-of-the-swap-box\/\">interview<\/a> from last year talking about the innovative &#8216;Swap Box&#8217; project.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sean Gillis continues his look at the different forms of urban density through the <em>Atlant<\/em>ic <em>Canada&#8217;s Densest Neighbourhoods <\/em>feature. This week Gillis looks at the<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/10\/03\/atlantic-canadas-densest-neighbourhoods-quinpool-road\/\"> Quinpool Road<\/a> area of Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Oostveen shares a series of magnificent,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/10\/06\/a-history-mystery\/\"> century old photographs<\/a> that were recently unearthed a digitized at the Nova Scotia Archives.   The pictures are now the subject of an online appeal for help   determining where they were taken and what they depict.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21274\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=21274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-vancouver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Andrew Cuthbert uses a <em>Cartographically Speaking <\/em>feature to map distinct <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/03\/hastings-street-the-pulse-of-a-community\/\">elements of street feel<\/a> in the famously troubled and rapidly changing Downtown Eastside,   revealing insights into the effects of change on Hastings Street.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Price uses the <em>Price Points <\/em>feature to analyze the design failings of the maturing <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/03\/price-points-facelift\/\">Yaletown Park<\/a> which despite its potential fails to entice users to stop and animate its space.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Spacing&#8217;s   Dylan Reid reports back from the opening lecture of the  UofT Cities   Centre &#8216;Toronto in Question&#8217; lecture series addressing the  question &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/10\/05\/is-toronto-broke-or-not\/\">Is Toronto Broke?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alex Bozikovic uses the <em>No Mean City <\/em>architectural feature to talk about the meaning of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/10\/06\/22974\/\">representational forms<\/a> in contemporary architecture, highlighting new projects similar in    appearance to the recent expansion of the Royal Ontario Museum.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sm\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/>Allanah Heffez asks a series of questions to open up and <a href=\"..\/2011\/10\/02\/what-space-or-place-for-our-collective-memories\/\">continue a discussion<\/a> exploring the relationship between urban design and collective imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Guillaume St-Jean&#8217;s <a href=\"..\/2011\/10\/08\/montage-du-jour-leglise-st-louis-de-france\/\"><em>Montage du jour<\/em><\/a> feature this week presented another fascinating look at the evolution of Montreal and the striking buildings lost to history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Photograph by: Ian Irving<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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Commemorating the<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/10\/08\/spacing-saturday-french-highways-yaletown-park-and-collective-imagination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: French Highways, Yaletown Park and Collective Imagination&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"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":[6032,6750,320,4706,283,6083,287,497,6442,735,149,6751,5469,125,6753,153,4873,5931,151,152,6752,148],"class_list":["post-12133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-alex-bozikovic","tag-andrew-cuthbert","tag-artist","tag-blog-network","tag-canada","tag-clive-doucet","tag-dylan-reid","tag-europe","tag-gordon-price","tag-guillaume-st-jean","tag-halifax","tag-ian-irving","tag-lauren-oostveen","tag-montreal","tag-online-appeal","tag-ottawa","tag-royal-ontario-museum","tag-sean-gillis","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto","tag-uoft-cities-centre","tag-vancouver"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: French Highways, Yaletown Park and Collective Imagination - 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\/10\/08\/spacing-saturday-french-highways-yaletown-park-and-collective-imagination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: French Highways, Yaletown Park and Collective Imagination - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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