EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was previously published in Spacing Magazine's fall issue. HALIFAX -- Both Moncton and Halifax have their unique challenges in implementing a sustainable development path for their respective regions. This diversity of tactics was on full display during debates this past summer in both cities about road alteration projects. In Halifax, a decision on the proposed expansion of two-lane Bayers Road has been delayed. The project called for a four-to-six-lane widening along significant portions of the street, essentially turning it into a highway corridor for suburban communities leading into peninsular Halifax.

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HALIFAX, MONCTON & MIRAMICHI - Listen to Karin Aurell, flutist and active performer in the region, play publicly at VIA Rail locations in Halifax, Moncton and Miramichi, March 3 - 11, 2011. Aurell will be performing Martin Kutnowski's 12 Tango Etudes. This is a great opportunity to get out of your regular zone and enjoy free music in a relatively public space. All shows start approximately one hour before the departure of the westbound train, and the performer is encouraging interested people to show up just to listen, joining the folks who are in the train station for travel. The VIA Rail shows are part of a larger national project titled New Music in New Places, the focus of which is to bring new Canadian music to a new audience by performing it in venues other than regular concert venues. The idea of performing in train stations is one that appeals to the flutist, partly because train stations tend to be good performance venues with good acoustics and exciting things going on, and also because they are places where people who are going from one place to another often end up spending a bit of time. It also evokes the performer's youth, when she spent many hours busking and one of her favourite performance spots was an underground walkway connecting the Stockholm Central Station with that city's subway system. WHAT: Public Performances at VIA Rail Stations in Atlantic Canada WHEN: March 3 at 11am, March 10 at 4pm and March 11 at 6pm WHERE: Halifax, Moncton, and Miramichi (in order of above dates and times) HOW MUCH: Free

ALL OVER - "Jane’s Walk is the street-level celebration of Jane Jacobs’ legacy that combines the simple act of walking with personal observations, urban history and local lore as a way of knitting people together into strong and resourceful communities." Since it's inception in Toronto in 2007, every first weekend of May (to coincide with Jane Jacobs' b-day), Jane's Walk sends swaths of pedestrians out to infiltrate and explore the urban landscape. The walks honour urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs who championed the interests of local residents and pedestrians, ...

Moncton, New Brunswick Photo by Trevor Gertridge, member of Spacing Atlantic's flickr pool.

Moncton, New Brunswick photo by Trevor Gertridge, member of the Spacing Atlantic flickr pool

Moncton, NB photo by Matt (stu_pendousmat), member of the Spacing Atlantic flickr pool

Moncton, New Brunswick by MJBradbury, member of the Spacing Atlantic flickr pool