{"id":11401,"date":"2010-05-29T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:12:47","slug":"spacing-saturday-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/29\/spacing-saturday-23\/","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><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4024\/4646763358_f61763dffb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/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 montreal\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the Place des festivales nears  completion, Montrealers are getting a look at one of the most striking  new public spaces in Canada. Spacing&#8217;s Allanah Heffez reviews the new  space bringing up both <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/05\/27\/place-des-festivales-on-an-ordinary-day\/\">good<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/05\/27\/place-des-festivals-who-moved-the-trees\/\">bad<\/a> about the realized version of the square.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>Setting the stage for future investments in public space, the  council of the Plateau neighbourhood recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/05\/25\/parc-lahaie-transformation-underway\/\">interesting  plans<\/a> to expand a park in an area lacking in green space by closing  off a street that runs beside it. The street has already been closed to  car traffic and will be use the space to establish a farmer&#8217;s market.<\/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>Steve Bedard promotes the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2010\/05\/27\/halifax-open-street-party\/\">Halifax   Open Street Party<\/a>, happening this weekend in the city&#8217;s North  Commons. The event is hosted by the Halifax Cycling Coalition and The  Bike Week Planning Council.<\/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>David McClelland ponders the future of the Ottawa LRT by talking  about <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2010\/05\/25\/on-lrts-and-architecture\/\">the  importance of engaging station design<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>. In light of what he calls Ottawa&#8217;s history of shying away  from bold civic architecture, McClelland hopes that the architectural  opportunities of the LRT project will not be squandered.<\/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>In his weekly column, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/24\/lorinc-is-eglinton-a-tunnel-to-nowhere\/\">John  Lorinc<\/a> finds some cause for optimism about the future  of Transit City despite cries from the Mayor&#8217;s Office that the province  will not carry through with the plan. Lorinc examines the Mayor&#8217;s claim  that the Eglington line will run from Leaside to Forest Hill and  contrasts it against the recent actions of Metrolinx and his forecast  for the Province&#8217;s political future.<\/p>\n<p>In a call to action Hillary Best<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/23\/complete-streets-what-they-are-and-why-we-need-them\/\"> advocates the idea of &#8216;Complete Streets&#8217; <\/a>as was discussed during a  recent conference held by the Toronto Coalition for Active  Transportation. Best shows that the more we understand the idea of  complete streets, the more apparent becomes their necessity to the  future vitality of the region.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Marcus Bowman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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Spacing&#8217;s Allanah Heffez reviews the new space bringing up both good and bad about the<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/05\/29\/spacing-saturday-23\/\">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":[15165,13290,457,2045,11146,634,851,15166,15164,15167,1030,14004,426,2046,38,346,133,13943,19,3253],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-bike-week-planning-council","tag-blog-network","tag-canada","tag-car-traffic","tag-david-mcclelland","tag-farmer","tag-forest-hill","tag-halifax-cycling-coalition","tag-halifax-open-street-party","tag-hillary-best","tag-john-lorinc","tag-marcus-bowman","tag-mayor","tag-mayors-office","tag-montreal","tag-ottawa","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-steve-bedard","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-coalition-for-active-transportation"],"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\/05\/29\/spacing-saturday-23\/\" \/>\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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