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Image of the Moment: Westboro’s Complete Street
Image: Ottawa’s first ‘complete street’ Location: Churchill Avenue, Westboro, Ottawa, Canada Date of photo: June 13, 2015...
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Image of the Moment: The Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge
Image: The newly completed Standherd-Armstrong Bridge Location: Connecting Strandherd Drive (in Barrhaven) and Earl Armstrong Road (in Riverside South...
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Playful urbanism: Ottawa ‘sets the stage’
For the past couple of years Sarah Gelbard and Kent Aitken have been on separate missions to get the people of Ottawa to pause and play. Gelbard is a...
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Image of the Moment: Ottawa’s Sharrows
Image: Sharrows: A city initiative to remind drivers to share the road with cyclists through the use of arrows Location: Meadowlands Drive, Ottawa, Canada...
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Across the Ottawa Spaces – 21 July 2014
Among recent commentaries on infrastructure issues across the city’s websites… Eric Darwin notes the development of the le corridor scolaire...
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Spacing Ottawa Tour: Beaver Barracks Community Housing
On Saturday June 21, 2014, a group of 20 Spacing Ottawa readers met to tour the sustainable and socially innovative Beaver Barracks community housing...
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Cycling in Bonn, Germany: Lessons for Ottawa
With summer looming my thoughts turn to climbing aboard my bike and zooming along the newly bare streets and pathways. I love riding my bike in Ottawa...
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Image of the Moment: Remapping Rideau Street
Image: From the Uptown Rideau CDP Workshop – 28 May 2014 Location: Rideau Branch of Ottawa Public Library, 377 Rideau Street, Ottawa, ON Date of...
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EVENT: Jane’s Walk Ottawa 2014
WHAT: Jane’s Walk Ottawa 2014 WHEN: Saturday + Sunday, May 3-4, 2014 WHERE: Various locations throughout Ottawa COST: Free, unless otherwise noted...
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Across the Ottawa Spaces – 24 January 2014
In light of the closing of Ottawa’s “last downtown movie theatre”, the World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa Rewind takes a look at another...
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‘The Human Scale’: We’re all human, so why aren’t we building cities for people?
November 14th marked the second event in the 2013-2014 Urban Forum calendar, with a public screening of the documentary, The Human Scale. The Ottawa...
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Image of the Moment – Transit Intersect
Taken by Adam Hunt on July 23rd, originally posted publicly on his Diaspora account. We’ll let the photographer explain the context in his own...
By Dwight Williams