{"id":26530,"date":"2012-02-25T01:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T06:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=26530"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:13:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:13:52","slug":"spacing-saturday-gary-webster-brent-toderian-and-transit-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/25\/spacing-saturday-gary-webster-brent-toderian-and-transit-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Gary Webster, Brent Toderian and Transit Futures"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/Toderian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" \/><\/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>Brent Toderian has been in focus in the urbanist community ever since the visionary and articulate former Vancouver Planning Director&#8217;s contract was terminated early several weeks ago. Spacing Vancouver sat down with Toderian this week and presents the conversation in a two part interview about his legacy in Vancouver and the trajectory of Canadian urbanism. <a href=\" https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/20\/from-chief-planner-to-urban-ronin-chatting-about-legacy-and-the-future-with-brent-toderian\/\">[Part One]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/22\/from-chief-planner-to-urban-ronin-chatting-about-legacy-and-the-future-with-brent-toderian-part-2\/\">[Part Two]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver has set the ambitious goal of having over 50% of all trips in the city taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/02\/22\/vancouver-in-2050-transit-city\/\">biking, walking or transit<\/a>. Spacing presents part two in a series showing the results of work by a team of UBC planning and landscape architecture students on how the city can realize this goal.<\/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<p>Alexandre Laquerre shows the startling impact of grandiose public projects over a century of transformation at one of Canada&#8217;s most monumental intersections: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/02\/23\/elgin-sparks-1901-c-2012\/\">Elgin and Sparks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sa\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-atlantic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the recent announcement by Halifax&#8217;s Mayor Peter Kelly that he will not run for re-election after 12 years in office, Jake Schabas proposes <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/02\/23\/a-new-mayor-a-new-agenda\/\">a basket of issues<\/a> that should shape the city&#8217;s next political period.<\/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>In a nod to this weekend&#8217;s Montreal Nuit Blanche, Andrew Emond profiles an event that will pay tribute to the path of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/02\/24\/uncovering-riviere-st-pierre-during-nuit-blanche\/\">Rivi\u00e8re St Pierre<\/a>, one of the city&#8217;s most significant buried rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Allanah Heffez reports back on her presentation and other <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/02\/23\/opus-2-0-urban-mobility-in-the-age-of-electronic-payment\/\">insights<\/a> from this week&#8217;s Conference on Urban Mobility in the Age of Electronic Payment .<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Bozikovik&#8217;s <em>No Mean City <\/em>architectural profiles a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/21\/no-mean-city-a-two-faced-house-and-a-big-architectural-award\/\">fascinating addition <\/a>to a historic home in Toronto&#8217;s Cabbagetown neighbourhood that is beginning to collect some prestigious awards.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Webster&#8217;s termination as the Chief General Manager of the TTC continued a string of dramatic transit events in Toronto. John Lorinc provides some his characteristic political <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/21\/lorinc-rob-fords-minority-government-at-city-hall\/\">analysis on the decision<\/a> and its broader context.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\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. Brent Toderian has been in focus in the urbanist community ever since the visionary and articulate former Vancouver Planning Director&#8217;s contract was terminated early several weeks ago. Spacing Vancouver sat down with Toderian this week and presents<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/02\/25\/spacing-saturday-gary-webster-brent-toderian-and-transit-futures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Spacing Saturday: Gary Webster, Brent Toderian and Transit Futures&#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":[16981,19212,12144,13290,3611,149,457,2450,353,3280,109,12212,1030,426,38,346,19400,133,19,889,54],"class_list":["post-26530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-alex-bozikovik","tag-alexandre-laquerre","tag-andrew-emond","tag-blog-network","tag-brent-toderian","tag-cabbagetown","tag-canada","tag-chief-general-manager","tag-director","tag-gary-webster","tag-halifax","tag-jake-schabas","tag-john-lorinc","tag-mayor","tag-montreal","tag-ottawa","tag-peter-kelly","tag-spacing-saturday","tag-toronto","tag-ttc","tag-vancouver"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Spacing Saturday: Gary Webster, Brent Toderian and Transit Futures  - 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\/2012\/02\/25\/spacing-saturday-gary-webster-brent-toderian-and-transit-futures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spacing Saturday: Gary Webster, Brent Toderian and Transit Futures  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing\u2019s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. 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