Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.
They say that smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. Montreal artist Alexandre Cv has taken this up and launched the Smells in the City Photo contest challenging participants to capture the city through smells that help define it.
Alanah Heffez uses Toronto’s recent electoral misgivings as an opportunity to look back at Montreal’s civic administration one year into its term. Through the benefit of hindsight it is obvious that many post-election predictions didn’t fully come true.
Dwight Williams reports on the tenuous status of the venerable Somerset House building, a historic anchor of Centretown. The building’s future was cast into doubt following the accidental collapse of a support column in 2007 and remains very much uncertain.
Are you inspired by your city’s logo? After checking out a Norwegian web-based design project in which users are invited to design an inspiring new logo for their city, some Canadian logos including Ottawa’s stylized ‘O’ could maybe use a second look.
Spacing co-hosted a walking a tour of Downtown Halifax’s ‘blank spots’ this past weekend and featured two corresponding posts. Emma Feltes recaps the walk and invites readers to join the ideas hub. Matt Nevile continues the [Re]presenting Halifax series with some incredible conceptual maps of Halifax’s vacant space.
Joshua Biggley weighs in on the electoral plebiscite 
facing Charlottetown voters which will determine whether or not the city keeps its ward-based representative system. 
Just in case you hadn’t heard, Toronto elected a new mayor this week. John Lorinc posted two excellent election week pieces recapping the campaign and questioning that Monday’s results really represent a revolution.
Spacing’s Dylan Reid returned from a trip to Chicago and reports on the city’s unique above ground parking adaptations, a result of its swampy foundations.
Photo by émilie P