{"id":1496,"date":"2008-09-30T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T19:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/09\/30\/toronto-tuesday-climate-change-chinas-detroit-retrofitted-subway-cars\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:52:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:52:46","slug":"toronto-tuesday-climate-change-chinas-detroit-retrofitted-subway-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/09\/30\/toronto-tuesday-climate-change-chinas-detroit-retrofitted-subway-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tuesday: Climate change, China&#8217;s Detroit, retrofitted subway cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><!--StartFragment--><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/09\/dsc_0021.JPG\" alt=\"dsc_0021.JPG\" \/><\/span>Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/\">Spacing Toronto<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/09\/26\/\u201cglobal-warming-isn\u2019t-trying-to-kill-us-and-that\u2019s-a-shame\u201d\/\">Climate Change<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #0022e4; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><!--StartFragment--><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With an election fast approaching, now is the time to consider taking reactive and precautionary measures to allay the effects of global warming. Citing Ronald Wright&#8217;s message in his book\u00a0<em>A Short History of Progress<\/em><span style=\"font-style: normal\">, Keith Stewart urges us to consider candidates&#8217; plans for dealing with global warming so as not to repeat the self-destructive tendencies of past civilizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/09\/30\/changchun-chinas-detroit\/\">China&#8217;s Detroit<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Located in northeastern China, Changchun is home to the country&#8217;s first large automotive manufacturer. The city is also home to roughly three million people, yet few westerners have heard of it. Having recently spent some time in Changchun, Sean Marshall provides an account of his impressions of the city&#8217;s design and transportation systems. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/09\/25\/subway-trains-become-office-space\/\">Retrofitted Subway Cars<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Matthew Blackett takes a look at the Village Underground&#8217;s \u00a0initiative to revive tube cars no longer in use. The cars now function as ecologically responsible workplaces.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment-->\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities. Climate Change\u00a0 With an election fast approaching, now is the time to consider taking reactive and precautionary measures to allay the effects of global warming. Citing<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/09\/30\/toronto-tuesday-climate-change-chinas-detroit-retrofitted-subway-cars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Toronto Tuesday: Climate change, China&#8217;s Detroit, retrofitted subway cars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"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":[3096,319,3097,1546,125,3099,3098,284,32,152,3100],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-changchun","tag-china","tag-keith-stewart","tag-matthew-blackett","tag-montreal","tag-northeastern-china","tag-ronald-wright","tag-sean-marshall","tag-spacing-toronto","tag-toronto","tag-transportation-systems"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toronto Tuesday: Climate change, China&#039;s Detroit, retrofitted subway cars - 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\/2008\/09\/30\/toronto-tuesday-climate-change-chinas-detroit-retrofitted-subway-cars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toronto Tuesday: Climate change, China&#039;s Detroit, retrofitted subway cars - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. 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