{"id":6575,"date":"2011-08-27T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:24:11","slug":"spacing-saturday-suburban-transit-gentrification-agents-and-neighbourhood-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/08\/27\/spacing-saturday-suburban-transit-gentrification-agents-and-neighbourhood-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Suburban Transit, Gentrification Agents and Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4681690825_c510d0c6eb_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver&#8217;s Skytrain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/08\/22\/funding-skytrains-next-25-years\/\">turned 25 <\/a>this week, read about it on Spacing Vancouver<\/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><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21274\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=21274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sidebar-head-vancouver\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sidebar-head-vancouver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liam Lahey introduced readers to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/08\/25\/neighbourhood-watch\/\">Neighbourhood Watch<\/a> feature this week giving readers a fascinating look at the issues being tackled in municipalities across British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>John Calimente reviews Paul Mees&#8217; book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/08\/23\/transport-for-suburbia\/\">Transport for Suburbia<\/a> and finds it a surprisingly honest and convincing analysis of the problems and potential solutions to bring effective mass transit to the suburbs.<\/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 Hefez\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/08\/23\/confessions-of-a-gentrification-double-agent\/\">reflects <\/a>on the conflicting role that many of us play\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0upheaval which has\u00a0long been changing many of Montreal&#8217;s distinct\u00a0neighbourhoods in &#8216;Confessions of a Gentrification Double Agent.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jean Desjardins takes readers on a photographic journy along his 16km daily\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2011\/08\/24\/paysage-et-pieges-dun-travailleur-cycliste\/\">bike commute<\/a> north of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"..\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><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>Jessica Lemieux visits the 1920&#8217;s era Toronto home that it playing host to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/08\/26\/solar-energy-in-toronto\/\">Ravina Project<\/a>; an effort to experiment with ways to make individual houses more sustainable in their energy use.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Malczewski profiles the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/08\/24\/through-my-lens-seeks-photographer-explorers\/\">&#8216;Through My Lens&#8217; <\/a>project put on by the Toronto Urban Exchange. The project looks to encourage Torontonians to use their cameras to tell the stories of the city.<\/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>Alexander Laquerre launched the new series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2011\/08\/25\/ottawa-maintenant-et-avant\/\">Maintenant et Avant<\/a> profiling parts of Ottawa that have seen dramatic change over the last several decades. The first installment looks at 80 years of evolution on Sparks Street.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Photograph by: Tony Sprakett<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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