Spacing Ottawa

Book Review: The Architecture of Urbanity – Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy

By Sean Ruthen

National

The Future Fix: l’innovation au service des citoyens

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. This is a special, French-language edition.
By Spacing Radio
National

The Future Fix: Generation Restoration

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio
National

The Overhead: Preserving Community

Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio
National

The Future Fix: Fighting wildfires with drones and video games

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series.
By Spacing Radio

Trending

Angels in the City

Walking around Ottawa, with eyes directed only towards the city’s 70-plus statues and monuments the heroism of Canada, can seem overwhelming. A knight...

By Tonya Davidson

Transit

Dreaming in colour: The story behind Ottawa’s world-class transit map

Editor’s note: At Spacing Ottawa we were captivated by Adam Bentley’s vision of an Ottawa “transit map from the future” from our...

By Adam Bentley

History

The Gréber plan: A ghost of Ottawa past

In the late-1940s, Ottawa was a vastly different place from the city we know today. In spite of being Canada’s capital for 80 years, the city was...

By David McClelland

History

Image of the Past: Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus

Image: Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus Location: 1053 Carling Avenue Date of photo: Unknown Photographer/Source: Library and Archives Canada, Department of...

By Spacing

Transit

OC Transpo gets graphic: The transitway map

While sitting on a bus in Ottawa this past summer, I found myself doing a double take out the window – but not for any reason you may guess. In...

By Spacing

Curiosities

The sign of the fish: Ottawa sewer grates

Are the patterned openings to these storm sewer grates trying to tell us something? Some people look at them and see an odd jumble, others think a...

By Evan Thornton