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Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n

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Brian Gould reports back from the third annual conference of the CanU<\/a>, the Council for Canadian Urbanism. Both the conference and the make up of the group itself are reasons for high optimism about this budding organization.<\/p>\n

Erick Villagomez highlights a troubling application to demolish the Legg Residence<\/a>, one of Vancouver’s significant heritage buildings, and the rising efforts to save it. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Allegra Newman profiles the results of last month’s Next City Cafe <\/em>event engaging a wide variety of interests on the issue of how to make cycling better<\/a> in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

In light of a highly publicized deadly cycling accident in Downtown Ottawa this week Spacing highlights a compelling video respons<\/a>e to a similar tragedy in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sean Gillis reveals the final result of the Atlantic Canada’s Densest Neighbourhoods <\/em>series. This week profiling the most densely populated neighbourhood<\/a> in the Maritimes, Halifax’s Spring Garden\/ Queen Street area.<\/p>\n

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Last week’s profiled crowd-sourcing project to attach stories to a series of old photographs unearthed in the Nova Scotia archives produced some interesting results. Lauren Oostveen reveals the intriguing story <\/a>of one of the series’ most interesting photographs.<\/p>\n

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Two posts this week complimented the upcoming release of the food issue of the Spacing Magazine. Jessica Lemieux tells the story of how a vegetable garden built community <\/a>for a newcomer to the city. Luca de Franco uses the Headspace <\/em>feature to interview Debbie Field, executive director of the innovative organization Foodshare<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alex Bozikovic uses the No Mean City <\/em>column to profile a fascinating New York City program pre-qualifying high quality architects<\/a> for local public works projects to support local firms and make the most of limited budgets.<\/p>\n

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The Montage du Jour <\/em>featured several interesting contrasts in commercial buildings this week, including the evolution of a grocery stor<\/a>e over the past several decades.<\/p>\n

For several days Guillaume St-Jean’s Montage du Jour<\/em> focused on the fascinating changes brought about by the construction of the massive Maison Radio-Canada<\/a> complex in the early 1970’s.<\/p>\n

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Photograph by: Lawrence Plug
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