{"id":4503,"date":"2010-12-11T06:14:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:24:15","slug":"spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Citizen&#8217;s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<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\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" \/><\/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>Alanah Heffez reports on the outcomes of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/12\/05\/too-big-to-love-ipams-citizens-agora-and-the-challenge-of-regional-planning\/\">Citizen&#8217;s Agora<\/a> project, held last weekend, and what it speaks to in terms of the challenges of regional planning.<\/p>\n<p>With winter arriving in force all across Canada, Alanah Heffez gives a few simple tips on how to<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/12\/07\/and-then-it-was-winter\/\"> enjoy the season<\/a> in the city.<\/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 recaps the results of the 4Funds initiative in which participants were given one hour and $100 to make their community better. The group in Halifax installed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/12\/07\/4funds-participants-invite-you-to-share-your-thoughts-on-halifax\/\">community board<\/a> to beautify a derelict building and facilitate sharing of ideas, reflections and musings.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Atlantic Snapshots<\/em> <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=\"\" \/>series continues to showcase striking photography of maritime urban settings. This week the series featured\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/12\/09\/atlantic-snapshots-from-mount-pleasant\/\">St John<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/12\/06\/atlantic-snapshots-city-scenery\/\">St John&#8217;<\/a>s.<\/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>On the transit file, Jonathan Goldsbie breaks down Rob Ford&#8217;s claim that Transit City was never\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/12\/07\/that-time-rob-ford-voted-to-create-transit-city\/\">voted on in council<\/a> by showing the various stages through which it was approved, while John Lorinc explores the issue of how Ford&#8217;s subway plan would further\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/12\/06\/lorinc-what-about-the-ttc-operating-budget\/\">widen the TTC operating budget<\/a> problems.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the\u00a0<em>Head Space<\/em> series, Spacing interviewed Ernie Wallace, Executive Director of the Presto transit smart card system to talk about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/12\/09\/headspace-ernie-wallace-presto\/\">Presto 2.0<\/a>.<\/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>What&#8217;s the most green way to have a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/09\/low-carbon-christmas-comes-to-parkdale-market\/\">christmas tree<\/a>? Heather Yundt examines of what types of christmas trees are most sustainable (the fresh ones from Canada or the re-usable ones from China) and the business involved in dealing with them.<\/p>\n<p>Spacing profiles the new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/07\/george-dark-if-projects-are-not-sitting-in-a-city%E2%80%99s-10-year-capital-plan-they-are-not-going-to-happen\/  \">Centretown Community Design Plan<\/a> with illustrative visuals and an interview with George Dark of Urban Strategies, one of the planners behind the comprehensive new plan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photograph by John Talbot<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\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. Alanah Heffez reports on the outcomes of the\u00a0Citizen&#8217;s Agora project, held last weekend, and what it speaks to in terms of the challenges of regional planning. With winter arriving in force all across Canada, Alanah Heffez gives a<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Citizen&#8217;s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees&#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":[946,687,1540,758,2715,849,2713,1080,2611,1144,351,846,2710,803,1619,1926,729,394,2297,2714,2594,385,421,725],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-blog-network","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-christmas","tag-director-of-the-presto-transit-smart-card-system","tag-emma-feltes","tag-ernie-wallace","tag-executive-director","tag-ford","tag-george-dark","tag-halifax","tag-head","tag-heather-yundt","tag-john-lorinc","tag-john-talbot","tag-jonathan-goldsbie","tag-montreal","tag-ottawa","tag-rob-ford","tag-smart-card-system","tag-space","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: Citizen&#039;s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees  - 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\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Citizen&#039;s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees  - 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. Alanah Heffez reports on the outcomes of the\u00a0Citizen&#8217;s Agora project, held last weekend, and what it speaks to in terms of the challenges of regional planning. With winter arriving in force all across Canada, Alanah Heffez gives aContinue reading &quot;Spacing Saturday: Citizen&#8217;s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-12-11T11:14:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-01-21T14:24:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Marcus Bowman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Spacing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Marcus Bowman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/\",\"name\":\"Spacing Saturday: Citizen's Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees - Spacing Ottawa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-12-11T11:14:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-01-21T14:24:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#\/schema\/person\/23200973cdd022d7b35c6813114bde4f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Spacing Saturday: Citizen&#8217;s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/\",\"name\":\"Spacing Ottawa\",\"description\":\"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered  |  Ottawa Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#\/schema\/person\/23200973cdd022d7b35c6813114bde4f\",\"name\":\"Marcus Bowman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6b649e90c558c0526d6f3d84bb3d0e2d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6b649e90c558c0526d6f3d84bb3d0e2d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Marcus Bowman\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.spacing.ca\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/author\/marcusbowman\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Spacing Saturday: Citizen's Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees  - Spacing Ottawa","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Spacing Saturday: Citizen's Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees  - Spacing Ottawa","og_description":"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Alanah Heffez reports on the outcomes of the\u00a0Citizen&#8217;s Agora project, held last weekend, and what it speaks to in terms of the challenges of regional planning. With winter arriving in force all across Canada, Alanah Heffez gives aContinue reading \"Spacing Saturday: Citizen&#8217;s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees\"","og_url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/","og_site_name":"Spacing Ottawa","article_published_time":"2010-12-11T11:14:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-01-21T14:24:15+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Marcus Bowman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Spacing","twitter_site":"@Spacing","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Marcus Bowman","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/","name":"Spacing Saturday: Citizen's Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees - Spacing Ottawa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg","datePublished":"2010-12-11T11:14:23+00:00","dateModified":"2013-01-21T14:24:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#\/schema\/person\/23200973cdd022d7b35c6813114bde4f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/196\/440375791_df160ce43d_z.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/12\/11\/spacing-saturday-citizens-agora-presto-2-0-and-sustainable-christmas-trees\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Spacing Saturday: Citizen&#8217;s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/","name":"Spacing Ottawa","description":"Canadian Urbanism Uncovered  |  Ottawa Architecture, Urban Design, Public Transit, City Hall, Parks, Walking, Bikes, Streetscape, History, Waterfront, Maps, Public Spaces","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#\/schema\/person\/23200973cdd022d7b35c6813114bde4f","name":"Marcus Bowman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6b649e90c558c0526d6f3d84bb3d0e2d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6b649e90c558c0526d6f3d84bb3d0e2d?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Marcus Bowman"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.spacing.ca"],"url":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/author\/marcusbowman\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}