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Across the Ottawa Spaces – 25 July 2013
A selection of Ottawa-focused articles from across the Internet in recent weeks… Urbsite profiles the previous Ottawa City Hall Building (now known...
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Image of the Moment – Lebreton Overview
Taken by Chuck Clark, this image shows the progress of redevelopment in Lebreton Flats as well as the preparations of the western end of the Downtown...
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Across the Ottawa Spaces: June 2013
Another selection of weblog entries covering infrastructure and history across the city: Eric Darwin comes across a German innovation in empty-can...
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Urban Planet: Youngstown and other American cities are shrinking to survive
If you are a Bruce Springsteen fan, you might already be aware of the hard times that have hit Youngstown, Ohio. Once a steel giant, Youngstown has lost...
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Across the Ottawa Spaces – 23 December 2012
Eric Darwin presents a series of essays on the Confederation Line LRT as currently planned out, comparing what’s currently envisioned to what was...
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Next City Cafe: Seeing the Suburbs
The last Next City Cafe of the season looked at what Suburban Ottawa is really like for the people who are daily involved in these spaces and what needs...
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Next City Cafe This Wednesday
Spacing Ottawa’s Next City Cafe presents: Wednesday March 21st at 7pm at the Alpha Soul Cafe – 1015 Wellington Street West in Hintonburg...
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Tonight: last chance to stop wider/faster Bronson
If you can spare 30 or 40 seconds, watch the behaviour of the rushing vehicles in this video, and then compare the numbers of cars and trucks with how...
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The Changing Face of Vanier
The architect’s design slowly emerges as the curved concrete walls of the Wabano Centre are being poured. With the undulating forms of its façade and the...
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Too small for a park, too awkward to sell? There’s a Community Design Plan for that.
South Fairfield Heights CDP What do you do with public land left over from an infrastructure project that is too awkwardly shaped to subdivide and resell...
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Revealed: a crack house from the inside
For years Hintonburg and Mechanicsville have been working to shake their unwelcome and usually exaggerated association with drugs, prostitution and...
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Non-profit Beaver Barracks a model for sustainable housing
The Beaver Barracks project at Catherine and Metcalfe is nearing completion and its developer, the non-profit Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation, is...
By Spacing