{"id":5800,"date":"2015-03-30T07:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2015-03-31T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:00:41","slug":"spacing-films-powers-towers-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2015\/03\/30\/spacing-films-powers-towers-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACING FILMS: Powers Of Towers documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/96217279\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"SPACING FILMS: Powers of Towers\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"js-clip_description description read_more \" data-expand-tooltip=\"Click to expand description\">\n<h2 class=\"first\">SPACING FILMS presents: Powers Of Towers<\/h2>\n<p class=\"first\">&#8220;Powers of Towers&#8221; profiles Graeme Stewart and Sabina Ali, two remarkable people on the forefront of a revolution that\u2019s transforming Toronto\u2019s now aging suburban high-rise clusters into livable communities that work \u2014 and attracting the attention of the international planning community in the process. For their work, Stewart and Ali have been awarded the 2014 Jane Jacobs Prize presented by <em>Spacing<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as apartment towers have aged, the demographics of their inhabitants have also changed. Both of our winners are applying Jane Jacobs\u2019s methods to steer them into a second phase of useful life: Stewart by agitating for big-picture strategic thinking from the top down, and Ali by mobilizing the awe-inspiring energy of her community to create new ways of using the public space around them, literally from the ground up. We think Jane Jacobs would be pleased.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spacing Films presents\u00a0&#8220;Powers of Towers&#8221; in association with Tangent Motion Pictures and Foxley Films. Financial support for Spacing Films is provided by the Ontario Media Development Corportation.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>PRODUCED BY:<\/strong> Sean Liliani and Sarah Martin<br \/>\n<strong>PHOTOGRAPHY BY:<\/strong> Sean Liliani<br \/>\n<strong>EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:<\/strong> Matthew Blackett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>photo by Chloe Ellingson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPACING FILMS presents: Powers Of Towers &#8220;Powers of Towers&#8221; profiles Graeme Stewart and Sabina Ali, two remarkable people on the forefront of a revolution that\u2019s transforming Toronto\u2019s now aging suburban high-rise clusters into livable communities that work \u2014 and attracting the attention of the international planning community in the process. 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