{"id":8844,"date":"2012-04-28T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T14:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=8844"},"modified":"2018-01-29T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:34:08","slug":"spacing-saturday-large-urban-parks-urban-alleyways-and-transit-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/04\/28\/spacing-saturday-large-urban-parks-urban-alleyways-and-transit-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacing Saturday: Large Urban Parks, Urban Alleyways and Transit Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/74\/178702438_28b339d68a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" \/><\/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><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 heads into a municipal election Abad Khan recaps a tumultuous year while attempting to frame the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/atlantic\/2012\/04\/24\/saint-johns-municipal-election-3-ps-plansj-peel-plaza-pensions\/\">upcoming vote<\/a> and the challenges the city faces moving forward.<\/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 uses historical images to show how government <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/04\/25\/place-du-portage-hull\/\">office blocks<\/a> have dramatically altered the urban context in Hull.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"st\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/media\/identity\/sidebar-head-toronto.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>My City Lives, <\/em>takes readers on a three part guided tour of the historic &#8216;Old Town Toronto&#8217; neighbourhood with guide Bruce Bell. The first\u00a0installment\u00a0introduces the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/17\/my-city-lives-old-town-toronto-part-i\/\">broader neighbourhood<\/a>, while the second looks at the iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/24\/my-city-lives-old-town-toronto-part-ii\/\">Gooderham Flatiron Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Lorinc focuses on the topic of GTA transit funding, as the region looks to build off the momentum of the populist subway debates. Lorinc shares the results of a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/18\/spacing-environics-poll-74-of-gta-support-regional-sales-tax-dedicated-to-transit\/\">Spacing-Environics poll <\/a>showing wide support for a gas tax and later goes into detail about the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/23\/lorinc-the-perils-of-funding-the-future-of-transit-in-the-gta\/\">political difficulties<\/a> ahead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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>Alanah Heffez discusses how plans for\u00a0rejuvenating\u00a0a Montreal school yard were dashed when it was realized the green space will be <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/04\/16\/mtq-to-expropriate-schoolyard-for-highway-construction\/\">expropriated<\/a> for the impending expansion of the controversial expansion of the Turcot interchange.<\/p>\n<p>A special guest contribution by Michael O&#8217;Shea reveals a fantastic winter use for\u00a0underutilized\u00a0urban alleys in the winter by showing an example of how one Montreal alley was converted into a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2012\/04\/21\/build-it-and-they-will-come-white-alleys\/\">hockey rink<\/a> that created a neighbourhood gathering space.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?attachment_id=21274\" 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>As cities around the world continue to push for titles of largest new urban parks, Christine McLaren looks at the pros and cons of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/04\/23\/big-green-on-the-pros-and-cons-of-the-new-city-megaparks\/\">large urban parks<\/a> and in the process strikes at the comparative value of smaller parks that are responsive and well integrated to their specific community and business with their beautiful <a href =\"http:\/\/coloradosigns.com\/\">signs<\/a> on them.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Lowrie contributes to the <em>Cartographically Speaking <\/em>feature with the first two of three\u00a0installments\u00a0in a series using mapping to show the relationship between crime an urban form in Greater Vancouver. 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