Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.
As Montreal’s regional transit operator, the AMT, released a huge set of data showing off its ridership growth, Alanah Heffez delved into the information to investigate a hunch that active transportation was also on the rise.
The Institut de Politiques Alternatives de Montréal made a return to the spotlight by announcing a massive planning and development policy initiative involving government, community groups and citizens called the Citizen’s Agora.
Spacing profiles the innovative Four Funds project taking place in Halifax this weekend, participants have 100 minutes and $100 to make their community a better place.
As Mayor Ford began is term this week by throwing a brick into transit investment, Spacing looked back at the Miller years not through the record of the former mayor himself but through what the flowering years he presided over will mean for the city.
Sean Marshall brought back the popular Lost Villages series this week following a long hiatus by touring the historical remnants of Mississauga’s Barbertown neighbourhood. Despite long since being surrounded by sprawl the area remains true to its heritage as a mill town.
In a video dedicated to Torontonians stuck swallowing the Rob Ford pill of cutting transit investment, Evan Thornton uses a striking video of Barcelona shot from the front of a streetcar over 100 years ago to show how well streets can function as living rooms of the city.
Spacing Ottawa searches for things to like about Ottawa’s downtown Provincial Courthouse, colloquially known as ‘Fort Court.’
Photograph by Eskimo_Jo