{"id":2378,"date":"2010-04-10T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:24:19","slug":"spacing-saturday-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/04\/10\/spacing-saturday-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2689\/4499117980_370b920fcc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<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\" 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\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spacing&#8217;s Sean Marshall follows   up a piece in the latest edition of    the magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2010\/04\/08\/traffic-light-gallery\/\">talking      about Toronto&#8217;s ubiquitous &#8220;12-8-8&#8221; yellow traffic lights <\/a>and     their  negative aesthetic affects on the city&#8217;s urban landscape.\u00a0     Pointing to  examples of how lights are designed in other cities and     even in some  special areas throughout the GTA, Marshall discusses how     to improve the  aesthetic value of traffic signal while working with     safety requirements  and the Ontario Traffic Manual.<\/p>\n<p>As part of   the ongoing building stories exhibit at the Gladstone    Hotel, David   Wencer uses the old <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2010\/04\/09\/building-storeys-%E2%80%94-the-canada-linseed-oil-mills-buildings-sorauren-park\/\">Canada      Linseed Oil Mills building<\/a>, abandoned since the late sixties,  as  a    window into exploring the industrial history of the area along  the   CPR   lines and into how the area has regenerated. While the site   beside  the   building has been turned into a Park, the building itself   remains   fenced  off, despite having been purchased by the city in   2000. Local   residents  hope to tap the building&#8217;s potential to become a   dynamic   community  space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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>Alanah Heffez provides some  background on the work of contributer <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/04\/07\/blogger-arrested-in-toronto-sewer-forray\/\">Andrew     Emond who along with Michael Cook was arrested this week<\/a> while     exploring the Garrison Creek sewer in Toronto. Emond has been featured     on Spacing, amongst other media outlets, for his fascinating work on     mapping and photographing some of the spectacular, yet unsung     infrastructure at work beneath Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by thinking  about other people view the same area of a city    guest contributer  Daniel Rotszain recalls the experience of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/04\/07\/how-my-father-sees-the-mile-end\/\">walking through the Mile End    neighbourhood with his  father.<\/a> To his surprise his father saw the    neighbourhood not as  the height of urbanity many consider today but as    the inadequate slum  it was to a generation of immigrants yearning  for   something better  that it was during his father&#8217;s childhood.<\/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>As part of the ongoing &#8216;Spokes  People&#8217;  series, contributer Steve    Bedard discusses the <a href=\"..\/2010\/04\/08\/determinants-of-health-and-the-hccs-crosstown-connector\/\">importance      of building Halifax&#8217;s crosstown connector<\/a> bike lane from the      perspective of someone with an education in nursing and has seen many  of     the increasing health ailments affecting people as a result of     inactive  transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the way many European   cities integrate their historic    monuments into the modern city to   maintain functionality, <a href=\"..\/2010\/04\/08\/time-to-give-citadel-hill-a-facelift\/\">Jake      Schabas takes a look at Halifax&#8217;s Citadel Hill<\/a> and the potential     to  do some modernization on the site to make it less removed from  the     city.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/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>Ottawa is getting a potentially  exciting new public space with the    ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/04\/06\/bread-and-circuses-ampitheatre-a-boon-to-summer-in-the-city\/\">renovations     of the popular pedestrian gardens outside the World Exchange Plaza.<\/a> The plaza redesign and the new amphitheatre it will include are     profiled.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Capstick discusses the need to <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/04\/08\/reclaiming-common-sense-for-our-revolution\/\">reclaim     the term &#8216;common sense&#8217;<\/a> from hits Harris era connotations, for   the   upcoming municipal election. 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