Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.
Emile Thomas reflects on the fatigue incurred by touring people around your own city, specially if you are particularly good at doing so and become a type of attraction in your own rite.
Alanah Heffez reflects on the role of the urban plan as a social contract meant to govern use of the shared urban space and how this role has been diminished by ad-hoc application.
Jamie Stuckless showcases a great new tool for Ottawa cyclists which allows users to rate the safety of various cycling routes and then maps the collective results. The new tool allows cyclists to find the safest routes, even where bike lanes don’t exist.
Spacing profiles a new tour set up using the social media tool Gowalla which allows for users to set up or follow a walking tour.
Crystal Melville profiles an artist-led event to weave a creative design into the fence surrounding the Canada Games skating oval on the Halifax Common.
In Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park, site of the city’s best remaining colonial British settlement artifacts, an interactive community art project is underway to recall the area’s history and its resilience to natural forces.
In conjunction with No Mean City blog Alex Bozikovik profiles the new ‘Neighbourhood Maverick’ exhibition at Harbourfront and a Toronto architect’s finalist design for new wildlife highway overpasses.
John Lorinc takes a look at the push to build new arenas in Toronto using public private partnerships and questions whether such arrangements could produce the diversity of arena types that the city really needs.