By Evan Thornton
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A facade too far
Recently the builders of the Central — a block of condos going in at the corner of Bank and Gladstone –re-installed the preserved facade of...
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Garden of the Provinces and Territories: Best “least-known” public space in Ottawa?
Following up on the previous post, below are my original notes for “best public space in Ottawa” the multi-part piece Maria Cook put together...
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MacKenzie King OC Transpo station: worst public space in Ottawa?
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”ekthornton” id=”72157625584286577″ width=”600″] A few weeks ago the Ottawa Citizen...
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How social housing gets to your backyard — and avoids the OMB on the way
I was lucky enough to be the audience for last week’s edition of the excellent Urban Forum series at City Hall . Those in attendance heard Marni...
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Winnipeg wishing well
It’s been six months since we posted about Winnipeg; the last piece about the prairie capital was in high summer when the topic was the city’s...
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LRT: tunnel visions are blogs apart
No topic sees Ken Gray’s “Bulldog” blog on the Citizen site live up to its name better than his dog-with-a-bone stubbornly relentless...
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Elgin Street courthouse: a bunker by design, or a viewer’s blinkered vision?
The Citizen published another installment of a wonderful feature yesterday. It’s a historical walking tour of Elgin Street by Ottawa writer Phil...
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Spacing Ottawa anniversary: Seven things I learned about my city
It seems last month, not last year, that we launched Spacing Ottawa with a party at the Cube Gallery on Hamilton. I’ll never forget the date...
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Metcalfe running the wrong way for Padolsky’s lantern
The controversy around of the city’s plans to widen Bronson Avenue seems to naturally lead to discussion of the other arterial routes that cut north...
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Tower demolition done right
The internet was abuzz this week with the video from Ohio of a 275′ smokestack demolished with dynamite; it fell the wrong way, scaring a family...
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Centretown’s great divide – the reprise
We ran this video back in June not long after we learned of the City’s plans to widen the already dangerous Bronson Avenue ever further. What do we...
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Bronson road diet – the video
The struggle to put Bronson Avenue on a road diet instead of rebuilding it with wider car lanes is ramping up, with a community meeting scheduled for this...