{"id":13537,"date":"2012-03-10T01:34:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=13537"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:17","slug":"spacing-saturday-downtown-halifax-evolving-big-box-and-demographic-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/10\/spacing-saturday-downtown-halifax-evolving-big-box-and-demographic-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Downtown Halifax, Evolving Big Box and Demographic Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<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:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2587\/3745243433_83d67d0e34_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" \/><\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?attachment_id=21274\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-vancouver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver&#8217;s astronomical housing prices are well documented, the effects of the situation are beginning to show in rapidly falling numbers of school-aged children as Patrick Condon explains in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/08\/7168\/\">third instalment<\/a>\u00a0of his series on a long term vision for Greater Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Yuri Artibise profiles the new\u00a0<em>Constructing a Village, Creating a Community<\/em>\u00a0photography show by Leslie Hossack documenting the rise of the Vancouver&#8217;s innovative and controversial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/03\/06\/from-wasteland-to-condo-land-documenting-vancouvers-olympic-village\/\">Olympic Village\u00a0<\/a>neighbourhood.<\/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<p>Ottawa&#8217;s Centretown neighbourhood has\u00a0continuously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/03\/08\/somerset-metcalfe-vers-1935-2012\/\">evolved<\/a>\u00a0along with the city, Alexandre Laquerre looks at the emergence of high density over 80 years on Sommerset Street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a spat of recent development proposals calling the relevancy of the\u00a0<em>HRM by Design\u00a0<\/em>document into question, Spacing profiles a student conference at Dalhousie School of Planning aimed at engaging those concerned with shifting the debate around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/03\/08\/events-guide-halifax-its-time-to-shift\/\">downtown Halifax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Archibald explores the abundance of historic<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/03\/06\/atlantic-snapshots-ironwork\/\">\u00a0iron fences\u00a0<\/a>and railings in central Halifax, looking at their history and their art.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As turmoil continues around leadership at the TTC, John Lorinc provides strategic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/03\/05\/lorinc-council-opposition-needs-to-keep-eye-on-prize\/\">advice for LRT advocates<\/a>, making the case for keeping moral authority in the messy debate.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>No Mean City\u00a0<\/em>feature by Alex Bozikovic profiles a weekend architecture conference that will pay tribute to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/03\/09\/no-mean-city-honouring-george-baird\/\">George Baird<\/a>, a long time architecture professor and former Dean at UofT considered one of the most influential people in Canadian architecture.<\/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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joel Thibert looks at the trend of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/07\/why-the-demise-of-big-box-stores-is-not-necessarily-good-news-for-main-street-shops\/\">big box retailers<\/a>\u00a0abandoning their large formats in favour of smaller, more efficient locations and wonders if this could actually be bad news for main streets.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing an<a 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