{"id":4415,"date":"2010-12-04T06:29:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:24:15","slug":"spacing-saturday-barbertown-streetcars-and-fort-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/04\/spacing-saturday-barbertown-streetcars-and-fort-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Barbertown, Streetcars and Fort Court"},"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:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/150\/427221143_0dc3d10a30_z.jpg?zz=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" \/><\/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>As Montreal&#8217;s regional transit operator, the AMT, released a huge set of data showing off its ridership growth,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/12\/03\/active-transportation-on-the-rise-across-the-region\/\">Alanah Heffez delved into the information<\/a> to investigate a hunch that active transportation was also on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>The Institut de Politiques Alternatives de Montr\u00e9al made a return to the spotlight by announcing a massive planning and development policy initiative involving government, community groups and citizens called the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/11\/28\/events-guide-ipams-citizen-agora\/\">Citizen&#8217;s Agora<\/a>.<\/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>Spacing profiles the innovative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/12\/02\/events-guide-4funds-make-your-impact-halifax\/\">Four Funds\u00a0project<\/a> taking place in Halifax this weekend, participants have 100 minutes and $100 to make their community a better place.<\/p>\n<p><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>As Mayor Ford began is term this week by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/11\/30\/let%E2%80%99s-save-transit-city-together-%E2%80%93-saturday-2pm\/\">throwing a brick<\/a> into transit investment, Spacing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/12\/01\/a-goodbye-to-david-millers-toronto\/\">looked back at the Miller years<\/a> not through the record of the former mayor himself but through what the flowering years he presided over will mean for the city.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Marshall brought back the popular\u00a0Lost Villages\u00a0series this week following a long hiatus by touring the historical remnants of Mississauga&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/11\/30\/lost-villages-barbertown\/\">Barbertown<\/a> neighbourhood. Despite long since being surrounded by sprawl the area remains true to its heritage as a mill town.<\/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>In a video dedicated to Torontonians stuck swallowing the Rob Ford pill of cutting transit investment, Evan Thornton uses a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/02\/one-for-toronto-barcelona-1908\/\">striking video of Barcelona<\/a> shot from the front of a streetcar over 100 years ago to show how well streets can function as living rooms of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Spacing Ottawa <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/11\/30\/elgin-street-courthouse-a-bunker-design-or-blinkered-vision\/\">searches for things to like<\/a> about Ottawa&#8217;s downtown Provincial Courthouse,\u00a0colloquially known as &#8216;Fort Court.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eskimo_jo\/\">Eskimo_Jo<\/a><\/em><\/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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