{"id":4218,"date":"2010-11-13T06:05:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T11:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:24:16","slug":"spacing-saturday-green-frosting-road-widening-and-peep-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/13\/spacing-saturday-green-frosting-road-widening-and-peep-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Green Frosting, Road Widening and Peep Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<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:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4105\/4996504836_1bf204f14c_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/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=\"sm\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jacob Larson\u00a0analyzes\u00a0the Quebec government&#8217;s second attempt at a proposal to rebuild the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/11\/09\/losing-sight-of-the-highway-for-the-green-understanding-the-new-turcot-plan\/\">Turcot Interchange<\/a>. Larson attempts to cut through the &#8216;green frosting&#8217; to comment on the facts of what could be built.<\/p>\n<p>Alanah Heffez takes a look at what is probably the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/11\/07\/the-oldest-house-in-griffintown\/\">oldest house<\/a> in the historic neighbourhood of Griffintown. Turns out, the house is so old that reveals the mysterious existence\u00a0of another neighbourhood which once existed at the site.<\/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>Emma Feltes reports on the exciting plans for the<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/11\/08\/new-central-library-amps-up-public-consultation-in-halifax\/\"> Halifax Central Library <\/a>and on the progressive public consultation process that was used in its planning.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Oostven continues the\u00a0Front the Vaults\u00a0series by exploring the archived history of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/11\/12\/from-the-vaults-gottingen-street\/\">Gottingen Street<\/a> and its historic ties to Halifax&#8217;s German community. \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><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>Launching the new\u00a0Head Space\u00a0column this week, Luca De Franco interviews\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/11\/12\/head-space-christina-zeidler-yimby-festival-organizer\/\">Christina Zeidler<\/a>, head organizer of the YIMBY Festival which aims to promote cooperation between politicians, developers and community groups.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Sztabinksy reflects on what is perhaps the most common\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/11\/08\/peep-show\/\">peep show on the streets of Toronto<\/a>: portholes along the sidewalk that allow views of construction sites. Sztabinsky considers why developers include these windows and why we love them so much.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/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>Concerned groups are rallying against plans to widen Bronson Ave through the Centretown neighbourhood as the issue continues to ramp up. Evan Thornton this week posted both a look at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/08\/great-divide-the-reprise\/\">current dangerous situation<\/a> on the street as well as a profile of a prominent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/08\/bronson-road-diet-the-video\/\">online petition<\/a> against expansion plans.<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Hunt reports on the added dangers of<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/09\/rush-hour\/\"> November cycling<\/a> as well some of the regular hazards that don&#8217;t yet seem to be flying away.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by: Martin Ujlaki<\/p>\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. Jacob Larson\u00a0analyzes\u00a0the Quebec government&#8217;s second attempt at a proposal to rebuild the\u00a0Turcot Interchange. 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Alanah Heffez takes a look at what<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/13\/spacing-saturday-green-frosting-road-widening-and-peep-shows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Green Frosting, Road Widening and Peep Shows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302],"tags":[946,444,2596,849,915,2599,1509,351,1970,846,1924,1114,2597,2595,2598,729,394,2601,884,1988,2594,385,421,2600],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-blog-network","tag-centretown","tag-christina-zeidler","tag-emma-feltes","tag-evan-thornton","tag-fred-sztabinksy","tag-griffintown","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-central-library","tag-head","tag-jacob-larson","tag-kathryn-hunt","tag-lauren-oostven","tag-luca-de-franco","tag-martin-ujlaki","tag-montreal","tag-ottawa","tag-prominent-online-petition","tag-quebec","tag-quebec-government","tag-space","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto","tag-turcot-interchange"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: Green Frosting, Road Widening and Peep Shows - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/13\/spacing-saturday-green-frosting-road-widening-and-peep-shows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Green Frosting, Road Widening and Peep Shows - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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