{"id":6954,"date":"2010-05-08T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:40","slug":"spacing-saturday-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/05\/08\/spacing-saturday-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog   network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4569615101_b25f9ee9cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing saturday\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing atlantic\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How well a city invests in transit is reflected in the priority it  places on public  transportation. In Halifax, Dustin Vallen continues  the &#8216;City Unbuilt&#8217;  series to showcase a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/05\/05\/hrm-by-re-design-public-transit-inspired\/\">graduate   architecture project<\/a> for a bold new bus shelter at a prominent   corner in the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/05\/06\/halifax-janes-walk-traverses-transformation\/\">Halifax&#8217;s  Jane&#8217;s Walk<\/a> was a great success as a good crowd showed up to tour  through some of the areas of downtown that are on the verge of some  significant change. Spacing Atlantic this week featured a review of the  walk, so that anyone can experience at least a little taste of what they  may have missed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is Stephen Harper using the G8  summit to punish urban voters in Toronto? After reading <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/06\/get-ready-to-be-inconvenienced-by-world-leaders\/\">Matt  Blackett&#8217;s summary<\/a> of the Orwellian security measures that will be  imposed on the city during and leading up to the summit, you may think  so.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is a city defined by its undefinedness and has long  had troubles properly marketing itself to the world. On the eve of a  trip to Manchester, Spacing&#8217;s Shawn Micallef reflects on that <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/06\/toronto-vs-manchester-at-the-futureeverything-festival\/\">city&#8217;s  success at defining its image<\/a> and compares its marketable  attributes to our own, wondering why there has been such a difference,  and what causes some city&#8217;s to a clearer collective image of themselves  than others.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing ottawa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Preparing readers for a trip to  the exurban community of Carleton Place, just beyond the reaches of  greater Ottawa, Spacing <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/05\/06\/spacings-next-stop-carleton-place\/\">profiles  a new transit initiative<\/a> in Lanark County that works to take  commuters not just to conventional places and not just at conventional  times.<\/p>\n<p>In a bold opinion piece Chris Bradshaw <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/05\/03\/opinion-tomorrows-rapid-transit-will-support-todays-urban-sprawl\/\">critiquescurrent\u00a0 rapid transit proposals<\/a> that are designed to move commuters to and  from the suburbs but will only support sprawl. Bradshaw instead presents a  case for modes such as streetcars that will serve the dense urban  communities of the future.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing montreal\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the dust settles on our 2009   tax returns, now is a good time to look at the significance of some of   the numbers. Spacing&#8217;s Alanah Heffez breaks some aspects of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/05\/05\/reflections-after-tax-time\/\">her    return<\/a> for readers and in doing so reveals a fantastic  illustration  of a fundamental problem with Canadian Federalism: the  underfunding of  municipal government.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Halifax Jane&#8217;s  Walk by Katie McKay <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. How well a city invests in transit is reflected in the priority it places on public transportation. 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