{"id":3691,"date":"2008-10-10T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/10\/10\/my-favourite-mississauga-space\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:46:15","slug":"my-favourite-mississauga-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/10\/my-favourite-mississauga-space\/","title":{"rendered":"My favourite Mississauga space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1415\/833747534_a088c29072.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago I was a member of Mississauga&#8217;s 2008 Urban Design Awards jury. I got to tour around the sprawling city &#8212; in a Mississauga Transit bus with the other jurors, no less &#8212; looking at a number of interesting entries (I&#8217;ll reveal the finalists\/winners in another post in early November, just after the awards ceremony). It was great to once again see the many sides of this 700,000 and growing suburb, from the relatively urban Lake Shore Blvd. in Port Credit to the expansive business parks near the municipal border of Milton. (As an aside, Mississauga wants to buy a chunk of land that is currently undeveloped from Milton to expand it&#8217;s borders because the city feels it can service the area better than Milton will be able to &#8212; imagine Toronto suggesting that to Pickering or Markham?)<\/p>\n<p>One of the nice things I discovered on this day trip was a contest the city of Mississauga is running called\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mississauga.ca\/portal\/residents\/myfavouritemississaugaspace\">My Favourite Mississauga Space<\/a>.&#8221; The city wants to recognize great public spaces such as skate parks, squares, streets, or places to intereact with wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>If this is of interest to any of you, check out the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mississauga.ca\/portal\/residents\/myfavouritemississaugaspace\">My Favourite Mississauga Space<\/a> web site to look at large photos of the entries. Once you&#8217;ve done that you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keysurvey.com\/survey\/224508\/1d55\/\">go and vote on the spaces you like<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/wyliepoon\/833747534\/\">Wylie Poon<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago I was a member of Mississauga&#8217;s 2008 Urban Design Awards jury. 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