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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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European Lights Festivals may be a way to enliven public space in the Canadian winter.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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With Vancouver having been\u00a0many times\u00a0named one of the\u00a0world’s least affordable cities\u00a0<\/a>Mayor Gregor Robinson has appointed a ‘Blue Ribbon Affordability Task Force.’ Sean Antrim profiles the appointees to the task force and critiques its composition.<\/p>\n

The theme of affordability was tied heavily with a discussion about the Downtown East Side, another major theme on the Vancouver Blog this week. Sean Ruthen profiles the interesting redevelopment of the historic\u00a0Burns Block<\/a>\u00a0while Caroline Toth’s\u00a0Video Vancouver\u00a0<\/em>feature showcases an interview on the\u00a0Gastown Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ottawa’s pedestrian-only Sparks Street has long been fodder for ideas to increase its vitality. Marie-Judith Jean-Louis puts forward some stricking images of the Light Festival Ghent in Belgium has an idea to\u00a0liven the pedestrian space<\/a>\u00a0in the winter time.<\/p>\n

Alexandre Laquerre takes a look at\u00a0102 years of change\u00a0<\/a>at the corner of Sussex and Rideau in Central Ottawa.<\/p>\n

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In response to Mayor Ford’s claims that LRT technology is the same as streetcars and trams, Noah van der Laan has undertaken a new feature showcasing some of the world’s most impressive modern LRT systems. This week the feature looked at the world’s largest LRT system in\u00a0Melbourne<\/a>\u00a0and an impressive suburban system in\u00a0Stockholm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Responding to the need for traffic calming on urban streets, Dylan Reid looks\u00a0beyond the speed bump<\/a>\u00a0at examples of other effective design features in use both in Canada and around the world.<\/p>\n

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Allanah Heffez writes about the challenges, opportunities and frustrations of dealing with the\u00a0CP Rail tracks<\/a>\u00a0that separate Montreal’s Plateau and\u00a0Rosemont-Petite-Patrie neighbourhoods; the barrier is not the tracks themselves but bureaucratic inflexibility.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Photo du Jour\u00a0<\/em>feature took a look this week at, amongst other things, various scenes of\u00a0outdoor pick-up hockey<\/a>\u00a0in Montreal’s parks.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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Photograph by:\u00a0ANBerlin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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