That's right, Spacing is now offering a subscription to readers who only want to get our national edition! It'll cost you $15 for 2 issues, or $25 for 4 issues. Even better, you can buy it as a gift subscription for someone else! Up until the summer of 2011, the print edition of Spacing had been primarily focused on Toronto urban issues. We happily launched a special national issue in June (we even had an event at The Hub in Halifax to celebrate the release). The editors of Spacing have decided to continue ...

Across the Spacing urban blog network each week we're asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us know their favourite things about their respective city. THIS WEEK: What is your favourite pedestrian bridge(s) in your city? If possible, please provide a link to a photo you are commenting about. We suggest using Flickr as the photographers that use this site usually provide the best quality images (and often with ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is cross-posted from the Halifax Media Co-op by Rocky Lis. Check out the original here. HALIFAX - A multi-million dollar upgrade involving re-painting and repaving of the Macdonald Bridge is currently underway. One of the goals of the Halifax Harbour Bridges authority that operates the bridge is to become a recognized leader in sustainable transportation demand management (TDM). Vehicular traffic is becoming more congested around the Macdonald Bridge as the HRM population rapidly grows, making sustainable TDM particularly pertinent. Encouraging cycling commuting by improving infrastructure ought to be a key component in pursuit of any sustainable TDM program.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Long-time supporter of Spacing, Robert Ouellette, wants residents of Canadian cities to take part in his new project called MESH Cities. Whether they knew it or not, anyone who followed Toronto’s Port Land debacle over the last few weeks got a first-hand introduction to the power MESH Cities have to shape our communities. Let me explain. We’ve been hearing a lot about so-called “smart” cities in the news recently as the major computing and infrastructure players like IBM, Cisco, GE, and Siemens look at the next frontier in the trend towards ubiquitous computing. That new frontier is our cities. Whatever you might think about a computer-driven modernity, MESH Cities are not just smart cities. MESH Cities go beyond the management of infrastructure to the heart of what makes cities worthwhile—their livability. Metaphorically, MESH Cities are the offspring of an improbable marriage between Jane Jacobs' ideals and ubiquitous city computing. Their kids, in this context, are named MESH: M=Mobile, E=Efficient, S=Subtle, H=Heuristics This is how the www.meshcities.com website introduces the concept.

WHAT: It's More Than Buses - Mobilize Public Support WHEN: Wednesday, September 7 – 6:00pm WHERE: Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre HOW MUCH: Free The third and final It's More Than Buses session will focus on mobilizing public support to implement the ideas developed by participants at the previous two sessions. We will also review our high-frequency transit network concept for HRM, a synthesis of the ideas mapped out by participants at session 2. Guest speaker Paul Bedford, former Chief Planner for the City of Toronto, will open session 3 ...

Editor's Note: Halifax resident Allison Sparling writes a guest post for Spacing Atlantic on Urban Art. HALIFAX - Recently, Halifax Councillor Linda Mosher and chairwoman of HRM graffiti task force suggested the Hip-Hop Hopscotch Festival should cancel it's urban art component because it resembles graffiti. It was unclear what she actually said; the Chronicle Herald piece which reported her views was incredibly sparse; the Huffington Post also picked up the story. The anti-urban art sentiment was enough to upset some, enrage others, and question whether she truly understood what urban art is, and how it impacts our city. Then of course, came the question: How many people really do?

Editor's Note - Cross-posted from Spacing Toronto Memories, memorials and raw thoughts are flowing across the city and country this morning remembering Jack Layton. Here's the moment where it all started in Toronto for Jack, when he won his city council seat in 1982. There will be a memorial today in the East Garden at Toronto City Hall at 4PM. Here's the text of the letter Jack Layton's family just released to Canadians:

The final stop on the Spacing Road Show hits Halifax on Monday. Make sure to come out! When: Monday, July 25, 6:30-9pm (panel starts at 7pm) Where: The Hub, 1673 Barrington St. Cost: free ($5 gets you copy of magazine) Facebook: RSVP to our event listing Panelists: • Matthew Blackett (Spacing publisher) moderator, • Cyndi Rottenberg-Walker (partner at Urban Strategies, urban planner), • Tim Bousquet (news & enviro editor at The Coast) • Andy Fillmore (director of urban design, City of Halifax)