By Evan Thornton

Two zloty to ride the red rocket

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Soundscape: Market and Rideau Centre

As an experiment, this past weekend I brought an omni-directional microphone with me during a walk through the Byward Market and Rideau Centre. Starting...

Living on the street? Unfortunately, there’s a map for that.

For most of us economic conditions wax and wane with recession and boom, but for the past 20 years one indicator of social-economic well-being in urban...

OC schedule gets a new wrapper with iPhone app

A daytime date with Mr. Dark

When you’re getting to know someone you think might have prospects it often a good idea to spend some sunshine hours with them before moving on to...

More blogs about buildings and streets

A couple of weeks back we wrote about some excellent Ottawa blogs that take an urbanist point of view with them as they explore our city’s streets...

Places we like: three blogs about buildings and streets

A supportive ecology is crucial to any organism, and Spacing Ottawa is no different. But whereas in many cities in North America our recent splash landing...

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...

Street furniture for smokers: an Ottawa success story?

They are the least-thought out public spaces in Ottawa and yet they are used hundreds of thousands of times in a day. Many people spend more time in and...

Video: Spacing Launch at Cube Gallery

[vimeo width=”600″ height=”450″]http://www.vimeo.com/7815938[/vimeo] Our friends at Dawghaus Studios were at the Cube last week to...