{"id":14016,"date":"2012-04-07T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=14016"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:16","slug":"spacing-saturday-public-squares-gould-street-and-the-dominion-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/04\/07\/spacing-saturday-public-squares-gould-street-and-the-dominion-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Public Squares, Gould Street and The Dominion Building"},"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:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7096\/7035894093_8742c1ea75_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/><\/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>Canadian planning students gathered in Vancouver this past February for the annual CAPS Conference. Andrew Cuthbert recaps the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/04\/02\/caps-2012-conference-keynote-words-of-wisdom\/\">keynote messages\u00a0<\/a>delivered there by various planning luminaries while Cameron Barker profiles some of the conference&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/04\/04\/capping-off-a-conference-the-annual-caps-canadian-association-of-planning-students-conference\/\">walking tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eve Lazarus looks at the interesting history of the eccentrically designed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/04\/03\/the-dominion-building-the-story\/\">Dominion Building<\/a>\u00a0in downtown Vancouver, which for a brief period following its completion in 1909 was the tallest in the British Empire.<\/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>At Elgin and Queen Streets in downtown Ottawa, historic photos show how space has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/01\/elgin-queen-looking-north-around-1890-versus-2012\/\">opened up<\/a>\u00a0to enhance public vistas.<\/p>\n<p>Along Wellington Street however similar photos show how building\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/03\/29\/wellington-street-looking-east-between-bay-and-lyon\/\">mass has increased<\/a>\u00a0significantly, filling a different demand of government.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spacing&#8217;s Shawn Micallef was fortunate enough to be part of a University of Toronto Architecture\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/03\/26\/laneway-housing-a-new-series-looking-at-the-toronto-based-work-created-by-stuents-in-university-of-torontos-laneway-studio\/\">laneway studio<\/a>\u00a0this past semester. Micallef brings the intriguing results of this studio in a series of posts on ideas of laneways uses at sites throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>Ryerson University students have finally\u00a0succeeded\u00a0in their long running campaign to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/03\/29\/ryerson-celebrates-permanent-pedestrian-zone-on-gould-street\/\">close Gould Street<\/a>\u00a0to cars in the heart of the campus. Daniel Viola discusses the vote that lead to the creation of Ryerson Square and the site&#8217;s future potential.<\/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>Allanah Heffez continues her discussion of Montreal&#8217;s tendencies to marginalize its homeless population at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/30\/berri-square-keeping-our-common-ground\/\">Berri Square<\/a>, citing conflicting desires to simultaneously clean up the area while keeping tourists away from it.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing the theme of public squares, Allanah Heffez also looked at the history of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/03\/24\/square-chaboillez-and-the-dangers-of-precedent\/\">Square Chaboillez<\/a>\u00a0a space currently occupied by the Montreal Planetarium which as seen it boundaries re-drawn numerous times and now faces another period of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/76424594@N03\/\">willowgardeners<\/a><\/em><\/p>\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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Eve Lazarus looks at<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/04\/07\/spacing-saturday-public-squares-gould-street-and-the-dominion-building\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Public Squares, Gould Street and The Dominion Building&#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":[6750,1321,4706,6934,7181,7177,7180,125,7178,153,7182,7179,4970,1842,151,7138,152,7183,148],"class_list":["post-14016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-andrew-cuthbert","tag-berri-square","tag-blog-network","tag-cameron-barker","tag-daniel-viola","tag-dominion-building","tag-eve-lazarus","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-planetarium","tag-ottawa","tag-ryerson","tag-ryerson-square","tag-ryerson-university","tag-shawn-micallef","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-square-chaboillez","tag-toronto","tag-university-of-toronto-architecture","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: Public Squares, Gould Street and The Dominion Building - 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\/2012\/04\/07\/spacing-saturday-public-squares-gould-street-and-the-dominion-building\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Public Squares, Gould Street and The Dominion Building - 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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