{"id":9203,"date":"2011-01-29T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=9203"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:51:32","slug":"spacing-saturday-oval-art-arena-partnerships-and-the-urban-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/01\/29\/spacing-saturday-oval-art-arena-partnerships-and-the-urban-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Oval Art, Arena Partnerships and the Urban Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2119\/2216548593_c9c7b37808_z.jpg?zz=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/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><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>Jamie Stuckless showcases a great<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/01\/24\/user-ratings-coming-for-ottawa-bike-routes\/\"> new tool for Ottawa cyclists<\/a> which allows users to rate the safety of various cycling routes and  then maps the collective results. The new tool allows cyclists to find  the safest routes, even where bike lanes don&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Spacing profiles a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/01\/28\/spacing-ottawas-first-gowalla-trip\/\">new tour<\/a> set up using the social media tool Gowalla which allows for users to set up or follow a walking tour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crystal Melville profiles an<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/01\/22\/events-guide-weaving-community-art-project-at-the-canada-games-oval\/\"> artist-led event<\/a> to weave a creative design into the fence surrounding the Canada Games skating oval on the Halifax Common.<\/p>\n<p>In Halifax&#8217;s Point Pleasant Park, site of the city&#8217;s best remaining colonial British settlement artifacts, an interactive <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2011\/01\/26\/events-guide-the-gatekeepers-lodge-open-projects-initiative\/\">community art project<\/a> is underway to recall the area&#8217;s history and its resilience to natural forces.<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with <em>No Mean City<\/em> blog Alex Bozikovik profiles the new <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/28\/no-mean-city-architecture-at-harbourfront-and-design-week-highlights\/\">&#8216;Neighbourhood Maverick&#8217;<\/a> exhibition at Harbourfront and a Toronto architect&#8217;s finalist design for new <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/26\/no-mean-city-building-for-wild-animals\/\">wildlife highway overpasses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Lorinc takes a look at the push to<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/24\/lorinc-pucks-periods-and-penalties-triple-ps-for-new-arenas\/\"> build new arenas<\/a> in Toronto using public private partnerships and questions whether such  arrangements could produce the diversity of arena types that the city  really needs.<\/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>Emile Thomas reflects on the <a href=\"..\/2011\/01\/24\/the-post-tourist\/\">fatigue<\/a> incurred by touring people around your own city, specially if you are   particularly good at doing so and become a type of attraction in your   own rite.<\/p>\n<p>Alanah Heffez reflects on the role of the <a href=\"..\/2011\/01\/22\/a-view-obstructed-the-urban-plan-as-social-contract\/\">urban plan <\/a>as a social contract meant to govern use of the shared urban space and how this role has been diminished by ad-hoc application.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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