By Clive Doucet
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City of Bath: UNESCO designation in no danger
Editor’s note: For the past half-year Clive Doucet has traveled through Asia Minor and Europe examining some of the world’s most ancient human...
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Cities with no highways and highways with no debt: what’s wrong with France?
The question you see often posed with some bewilderment in Canada and the U.S. is – what is the matter with the French? Why can’t they get it...
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Village restoration on rails: one Euro to the seaside
There is an extraordinary thing happening in France, the little villages are growing, not declining. More than a 1,000 villages this year will apply to...
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The City as Machine or the City as Citizen
If I was still a city councilor and traveling around Europe ‘au frais de la princess’ (at public expense), I would be with a group of other city officials...
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Bottom-up design stands test of time: slaves’ seats still comfortable after 2000 years
It’s been about 1,500 years since the south of France was a Roman province but the remains of that civilization and its 500 years of settlement here are...
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Gritty Bologna is the Cinderella city
Ravenna is only about an hour from Bologna by a slow train but what a difference an hour makes. Ravenna is a three star tourist city in line for the...
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DOUCET: “Beauty counts”- how Budapest cherishes its World Heritage status
On a bronze plaque, high above the Danube where you have a grand view of the bridges, the Hungarian parliament buildings and the beautiful 19th century...
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DOUCET: Istanbul transit is for the dogs
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”spacing” id=”72157627028572526″] The Istanbul transit system is probably impossible for an Ottawa...
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DOUCET: Turkish transit Part 2: Moving People versus Fixing the Transitway
Once you get into the details, there are so many things that are different about Turkey’s shared transport system from Ottawa’s that it’s difficult to...
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Transit Vision/Transit Reality: Ottawa vs. Ankara, Part 1
I enjoyed Adam Bentley’s transit map vision for Ottawa of the future, but nevertheless found it frustrating that the mindset in my home town can’t think...
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DOUCET: Cities are not a biological phenomenon
Cities are not like trees. They are not a biological phenomenon. You can’t just add water and sunlight and expect a city to grow out of the ground. They...
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DOUCET: Cities can’t survive on coffee and donut politics
It’s easy to understand why Mr. Harper is so enamoured with the coffee and donut franchise. They are everywhere from fishing villages on Cape Breton...