{"id":26396,"date":"2012-02-18T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=26396"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:12:54","slug":"spacing-saturday-affordability-lighting-winter-space-and-lrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/18\/spacing-saturday-affordability-lighting-winter-space-and-lrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Affordability, Lighting Winter Space and LRT"},"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:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2201\/2960437713_d7f13e2b47_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"483\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>European Lights Festivals may be a way to enliven public space in the Canadian winter.\u00a0<\/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 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>With Vancouver having been\u00a0many times\u00a0named one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/16\/mayor-calls-on-development-industry-to-eliminate-affordable-housing\/\">world&#8217;s least affordable cities <\/a>Mayor Gregor Robinson has appointed a &#8216;Blue Ribbon Affordability Task Force.&#8217; Sean Antrim profiles the appointees to the task force and critiques its composition.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of affordability was tied heavily with a discussion about the Downtown East Side, another major theme on the Vancouver Blog this week. Sean Ruthen profiles the interesting redevelopment of the historic <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/13\/go-east-young-city\/\">Burns Block<\/a> while Caroline Toth&#8217;s <em>Video Vancouver <\/em>feature showcases an interview on the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/16\/the-gastown-project-jim-green\/\">Gastown Project<\/a>.<\/p>\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>Ottawa&#8217;s pedestrian-only Sparks Street has long been fodder for ideas to increase its vitality. Marie-Judith Jean-Louis puts forward some stricking images of the Light Festival Ghent in Belgium has an idea to <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/02\/13\/is-winter-fix-for-sparks-street-already-on-view-in-belgium\/\">liven the pedestrian space<\/a> in the winter time.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandre Laquerre takes a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/02\/16\/intersection-sussex-rideau-1910-versus-2012\/\">102 years of change <\/a>at the corner of Sussex and Rideau in Central Ottawa.<\/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>Allanah Heffez writes about the challenges, opportunities and frustrations of dealing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/02\/12\/boundaries-or-barriers-for-petite-patrie-mile-end\/\">CP Rail tracks<\/a> that separate Montreal&#8217;s Plateau and Rosemont-Petite-Patrie neighbourhoods; the barrier is not the tracks themselves but bureaucratic inflexibility.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Photo du Jour <\/em>feature took a look this week at, amongst other things, various scenes of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/02\/12\/photo-du-jour-pick-up-game\/\">outdoor pick-up hockey<\/a> in Montreal&#8217;s parks.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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>In response to Mayor Ford&#8217;s claims that LRT technology is the same as streetcars and trams, Noah van der Laan has undertaken a new feature showcasing some of the world&#8217;s most impressive modern LRT systems. This week the feature looked at the world&#8217;s largest LRT system in <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/15\/lrt-today-worlds-largest-tram-network-in-melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> and an impressive suburban system in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/14\/lrt-today-stockholms-three-suburban-lines\/\">Stockholm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the need for traffic calming on urban streets, Dylan Reid looks <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/14\/beyond-speedbumps-other-ways-to-calm-traffic-on-residential-streets\/\">beyond the speed bump<\/a>\u00a0at examples of other effective design features in use both in Canada and around the world.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Photograph by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anberlin\/\">ANBerlin<\/a>\u00a0<\/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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