{"id":10659,"date":"2010-04-24T07:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T11:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:12:45","slug":"spacing-saturday-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/04\/24\/spacing-saturday-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across  Spacing\u2019s blog   network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic  region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/178\/444970833_e9fda97727.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing saturday\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing ottawa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoping that someday people will give directions such as <a href=\",   https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/04\/22\/turn-left-at-the-teapot-corporate-sculpture-in-ottawa\/\">\u201cturn left at the tea pot,\u201d<\/a> Jeremie Deschene discusses the role of public art in downtown Ottawa and elsewhere by taking a look at some of the pieces recently added to the public collection and what they reveal about just how much art enhances the urban environment.<\/p>\n<p>As part of ongoing civic election coverage Nick Farnhall challenges candidates to break from the traditional aversion to election time policy talk. <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/04\/19\/idea-shy-mayors-race-playing-for-time-or-putting-us-to-sleep\/\">Lamenting the lack of engagement<\/a> occurring at a prime stage for fermenting ideas, Farnhill discusses how candidates could better engage voters to develop their platforms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing montreal\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/04\/21\/tremblay-and-bergeron-unveil-alternative-turcot-interchange-project\/\">The saga of how to replace to the Turcott interchange<\/a> got even more interesting this week as Devin Alfaro explains in a piece profiling the City of Montreal\u2019s counter proposal to that proposed by the Provincial Ministry of Transportation. The City proposal involves a circular design, similar to one found in Shanghai, and dedicated bus lanes. Importantly the City\u2019s proposal would actually take up less land, and prevent the proposed expropriation of demolishing of an existing neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spacing atlantic\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Halifax, Jake Schabas looks at what <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/04\/19\/putting-the-gate-in-quingate\/\">a bottlenecked pedestrian\/cyclist passage<\/a> says about the city\u2019s transportation priorities. The bottleneck, which chokes an important passageway between the north and south parts of the city is causes merely by a chain link fence.<\/p>\n<p>While many Atlantic Canadian cities have traditionally lacked the density to spawn infill housing projects, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/04\/22\/wright-ave-infill-housing-at-its-best\/\">Halifax\u2019s Wright Avenue is an example<\/a> of how effective dense infill housing can be at plugging holes in the urban fabric with attractive and efficient spaces.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sean Micalleff explored the timely topic of the weather in his psychogeography column this week. Quoting Leanord Cohen\u2019s famous lines about<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/04\/20\/obscenity-on-the-streets-spring-days-in-toronto\/\"> the obscenity of Spring<\/a> as bare skin is revealed and the collective celebration of our winter survival, Micalleff discusses how attitudes this Spring reflect a maturing awareness about public space in Toronto, as a place where the revival of Spring truly plays out.<\/p>\n<p>The question of how to bring effective public transit to the suburbs is as interesting as it is important. Spacing\u2019s Sean Marshall travelled to his hometown of Brampton this week in a post<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/04\/17\/building-a-transit-suburb\/\"> highlighting some of the public transit changes<\/a> that are coming to the city. 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Hoping that someday people will give directions such as \u201cturn left at the tea pot,\u201d Jeremie Deschene discusses the role of public art in downtown Ottawa and elsewhere by taking a look at some of the pieces recently<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/04\/24\/spacing-saturday-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday&#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":[21759],"tags":[13290,143,14076,109,12212,38,14855,346,14001,14857,7531,14854,1659,133,19,14856,14858],"class_list":["post-10659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-blog-network","tag-brampton","tag-devin-alfaro","tag-halifax","tag-jake-schabas","tag-montreal","tag-nick-farnhall","tag-ottawa","tag-pedestriancyclist","tag-provincial-ministry-of-transportation","tag-sean-marshall","tag-sean-micalleff","tag-shanghai","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto","tag-transportation-priorities","tag-turcott-interchange"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday  - Spacing Toronto<\/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\/toronto\/2010\/04\/24\/spacing-saturday-18\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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