By Spacing
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Ottawa’s Winterlude: A rich history of winter carnivals in the Nation’s Capital
With Winterlude 2014 set to open this weekend, we take a look back at the history of the winter festival. Having been celebrated in Ottawa and Gatineau...
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Biophilic Design: Could Ottawa’s Rockcliffe Lands be the first biophilic redevelopment in Canada?
Image by: Viliam Glazduri Story by Katherine Forster, Urban Biophilic Facilitator You’ve heard the news: get your Vitamin N, enjoy a forest-bath...
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When ideals meet reality: A ‘Victory’ at Beaver Barracks
Across from the south lawn of the Museum of Nature is an unassuming low-rise apartment building that, one can discover upon a bit of curious exploration...
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10 questions to ask a transit planner
Cities are full of armchair transit planners — so much so, in fact, that the practice is derisively known as “drawing lines on a map.” But it’s far more...
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Spacing’s Shawn Micallef talks suburbs, cupcake urbanism and divided people at TEDxToronto
The TEDxToronto affiliate in Toronto has grown to be one of the bigger events associated with the TED conference in California. Spacing’s senior...
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Metro Magnets: create your own subway map with our newest product
Metro Magnets from Spacing Magazine on Vimeo. Spacing is happy to announce our newest merchandise product: Metro Magnets! Everyone has an opinion of what...
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Dawson City — big city problems in a small northern town
Tim Falconer is the author of three books, including Drive: A Road Trip through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile. He recently spent three...
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Spacing releases War of 1812 fridge magnets
Spacing has long been a supporter of Canada’s historic sites in our large urban centres. 200 years ago, our country was forever changed during the...
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Spacing releases Canada City notebook-sketchbook
The newest item added to Spacing’s e-store is our Canada City notebook/sketchbook. The 5.5-inch by 4-inch book contains 64 blank pages for your...
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Creative Mapping Contest deadline extended to May 31
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 31st Spacing magazine presents the CREATIVE MAPPING CONTEST Do you love maps? Are you an illustrator, graphic designer, or visual...
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TODERIAN: Discovering the worlds of Twitter and urbanism
This special column is from Brent Toderian, the former chief urban planner of Vancouver. Last week I had lunch with a friend and fellow urbanist, Bob...
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Event: Jane’s Walk Ottawa kickoff talk with Spacing editor Shawn Micallef Thursday May 3rd
Spacing Senior Editor Shawn Micallef will be in Ottawa tomorrow, May 3rd, to give a talk on walking at the Jane’s Walk Ottawa kickoff event at the...