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Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n

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Yuri Artibise tells the story of a specific group of the ‘Vancouver Special<\/a>,’ \u00a0a stock housing design developed in the 1960’s which was made cheaply available and manifested in several thousand houses throughout Vancouver. The group of houses tell a unique story of \u00a0the history of the Strathcona neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Cameron Barker examines the striking architecture<\/a> of the new Visitors Centre recently opened at Vancouver’s Van Dusen Gardens.<\/p>\n

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Alanah Heffez looks at the history of traffic lights<\/a> on the island of Montreal, illustrating some of the process of how traffic signals became standardized and how some problems still haven’t changed.<\/p>\n

Joel Thibert provides a glimpse inside Montreal’s regional politics through a look at the\u00a0tumultuous final approval of the area’s first regional plan<\/a> the\u00a0Plan m\u00e9tropolitain d’am\u00e9nagement et d\u00e9veloppement.<\/p>\n

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Toronto’s\u00a0homicide rate hit a 25 year low in 2011, John Lorinc\u00a0\u00a0reflects on the reasons behind this success as well as the shifting politics behind public safety<\/a> in the city under Rob Ford.<\/p>\n

Alex Bozikovic’s No Mean City <\/em>architectural feature asks tough questions about the\u00a0soullessness of international waterfront redevelopment<\/a> based on recent states from leading architect Rem Koolhaas.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0separate\u00a0post No Mean City <\/em>also pays homage to the walk-up\u00a0apartment<\/a>, advocating how this residential form could fill an important niche in Toronto’s housing market which is currently neglected.<\/p>\n

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Predicting that this new year will not only be good to Ottawa but will make it the <\/em>Canadian city to watch in 2012, Alan Miguelez presents the top ten reasons for optimism<\/a> in 2012.<\/p>\n

Mark Brandt reviews the book Cities as Crucibles<\/a>: Reflections on Canada’s Urban Future<\/em>\u00a0by Francois Lapointe, current VP of Capital Planning at the National Commission, and finds it to be a comprehensive and accessible understanding of how to re-create Canadian cities in the coming years.<\/p>\n

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