{"id":25723,"date":"2012-02-04T01:07:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T06:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=25723"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:14:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:14:18","slug":"spacing-saturday-transit-planning-the-tall-building-century-and-founding-spacington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/04\/spacing-saturday-transit-planning-the-tall-building-century-and-founding-spacington\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Transit Planning, the Tall Building Century and Founding Spacington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3292\/3026528443_159e876db0_z.jpg?zz=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ss\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-spacingsaturday-600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new city was founded this week, the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/02\/sim-city-introduction\/\">Spacington<\/a> . Spacing staffers will use Sim City to attempt to turn Spacington into a 21st century utopia over the coming weeks using feedback from reader commentary. Comment early, comment often and help build the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/07\/09\/spacing-saturday-reallocating-laneways-budapest-ubranism-and-paddle-the-don\/sidebar-head-vancouver\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-vancouver.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Price uses the <em>Prince Points <\/em>feature to look into the story of a cluster of towers at <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/30\/price-points-towers-in-the-bush\/\">Lougheed Town Centre<\/a>. Through the work of David Pereira, Price explores the tower&#8217;s connections to Simon Fraser University and why such density was built in the midst of what was significant greenfield at the time.<\/p>\n<p>While many questioned the future of the skyscraper after September 11th, Sean Ruthen shows that the last decade may have precipitated a century in which the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/31\/high-rise-idea-and-reality\/\">tall building<\/a> will be zeitgeist. Through his review of Andres Janser&#8217;s new book <em>Highrise Idea and Reality<\/em>, Ruthen discusses the global phenomenon which has seen the number of high rise buildings on earth double in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"so\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-ottawa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jay Baltz reports on the ongoing effort to enact guidelines on Ottawa&#8217;s use of Section 37, the portion of Ontario&#8217;s Planning Act that facilitates <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/01\/30\/baltz-section-37-loopholes-now-big-enough-to-drive-a-bus-through\/\">density bonusing<\/a>, and criticizes how the guidelines have changed over a year of consultations.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Darwin uses the <em>Walkspace <\/em>feature to highlight some of the difficulties <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/02\/01\/walkspace-drowning-the-good-neighbour\/\">Ottawa pedestrians<\/a> face this time of year through a photo series of a good samaritan getting no respect from drivers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sm\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-montreal.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joel Thibert explores the hotly debated question of what really influences people&#8217;s decisions on where to live. Delving into a variety of related studies conducted around the world Thibert proposes ways to make increased<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/02\/01\/the-regionalist-of-suburbs-genes-and-childhood-memories\/\"> density more acceptable <\/a>to the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Alfaro provides a glimpse inside Montreal&#8217;s complex municipal governance, analyzing the potential outcomes in an <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/02\/01\/opposition-showdown-in-rosemont-on-the-horizon\/\">upcoming by-election<\/a> that promises to be a tough fight with implications for the city&#8217;s opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Saint John enjoys the completion of its new Official Plan, Morgan Lanigan comments on how the next step will be a thorough <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/01\/31\/city-and-country-a-tale-of-zoning-regulations\/\">review of the Zoning By-law<\/a> in light of the lessons learned over the 40 years of urban planning.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As disagreement on council continues to leave <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/30\/lorinc-whos-going-to-be-the-grown-up-on-the-eglinton-crosstown\/\">Toronto&#8217;s transit planning<\/a> in shambles, John Lorinc weighs in on the roles of various actors in the debate and who needs to step up to restore order.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Micallef uses the <em>Toronto Flaneur <\/em>feature to react to John Tory&#8217;s appointment to head up the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/01\/ontario-place-revisited-with-john-tory-heading-up-a-revitalization-of-the-site-lets-walk-around-the-site-now-and-see-whats-worth-saving\/\">revitalization of Ontario Place<\/a>, making a compelling argument that the rethink should stay rooted in the site&#8217;s rich past while emphasizing its role as a public space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Photograph by: Jonas Merian<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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