By Allegra Newman

Next City Cafe: Seeing the Suburbs

The last Next City Cafe of the season looked at what Suburban Ottawa is really like for the people who are daily involved in these spaces and what needs...

Next City Cafe – Seeing the Suburbs

This Wednesday May 16th at 7:30pm is your last chance this season to come out and participate in the Next City Cafe Seeing the Suburbs Wednesday May 16th...

Follow up on Spaces of Collaboration

Next City Cafe -Seeing the Suburbs

Wednesday May 16th at 7:30pm is your last chance this season to come out and participate in the Next City Cafe. Pass the word. Seeing the Suburbs...

Next City Cafe This Wednesday

Spacing Ottawa’s Next City Cafe presents: Wednesday March 21st at 7pm at the Alpha Soul Cafe – 1015 Wellington Street West in Hintonburg...

Next City Café 2012: Toxic Cities, Creative Collaboration, Art in the Streets

Spacing Ottawa’s Next City Cafe is taking a break in January but we will be back with more exciting discussions in February, March and April, 2012...

Next City Café on Wednesday: Reimagining Green Space

________ Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 7.00 PM @ Alpha Soul Café, 1015 Wellington Street West, in Hintonburg. Do you know of a green space in your community that...

Next City Café: The Future of Food

_____ Everyone eats. What we eat, how we get it, the cost of our food and where it comes from are questions for everyone. How do we plan our city with...

Notes taken: Everyday Cyclists and the Next City Café

“Everyday Cycling” is an inclusive term that can be used to describe anyone who rides a bike for any reason: for sport, for dropping kids at...

“Great places are shaped by the people that use them”

____ Editor’s note: Last week Spacing Ottawa contributor Allegra Newman joined with blogger. Eric Darwin and urban planner George Dark on a panel...

Trees and grass with that playground? Swap you for it.

View Larger Map Listening to the repetitive clanging of machines boring through bedrock it can seem that the condo developments along Richmond and...

Intensification, Smart Growth and Density Bonusing

As condo after condo is planned in the Wellington West neighbourhood, intensification is seen as an inevitable by many local citizens. City of Ottawa...