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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...
By Dwight Williams -
Across the Ottawa Spaces: 24 October 2012
Starting off: CBC Ottawa reports on the unveiling of the city’s draft budget for 2013. Many details announced, leading off with the 2.09 % property...
By Dwight Williams -
New geographic eReader called nomad from Spacing editor Shawn Micallef looking for your support
Have you ever read a book set in real-life places and then looked at, say, Google Earth or Streetview to see where the story and action takes place? If...
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Sights of Bytown: Piano in the Market
Taken in April 2012, on the Juno Awards weekend in the ByWard Market. The piano has since been moved slightly to protect it from the summer elements...
By Dwight Williams -
“Urbanized” and Andrew Cohen tonight at SAW City Debates
This just hit the Spacing Ottawa inblox from the organizers of SAW City Debates: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 7PM Galerie SAW Gallery Screening and...
By Spacing -
Considering Public Space in Ottawa: Library & Archives Canada Building
Editor’s note: This article is cross-posted from Spacing Ottawa contributor Chris Warden’s new website dedicated to modernist architecture in...
By Chris Warden -
FAVOURITE FRIDAY: Which piece of local public art is your favourite?
Across the Spacing Blog Network today we are asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us know which...
By Matthew Blackett -
Ottawa Knowledge: who will be Team Awesome?
____ What’s that you say — a pub quiz for Ottawa history buffs? No tedious questions about brat-pack movies of the 1980s or tortuous...
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Farewell to Elmaks, creator of the Swap Box
________ There was some sad news over the past weekend of the passing of “Elmaks” the artist behind the delightful Swap Box creations. Elmaks...
By Spacing -
Park(ing) Day!
Today, Friday, September 16th, is PARK(ing) Day! In cities around the globe, artists, activists and citizens will transform metered parking spaces into...
By Hilary Best -
Underpass memories should not be extinguished
__ Earlier this summer, the National Capital Commission (NCC) announced intentions to construct a commemorative monument to Lord Stanley at a revamped...
By Mike Bulthuis -
Is Ottawa ready for a News Café?
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”spacing” id=”72157627287468666″] Click here for non-flash views Imagine a cafe with a perfect view of...
By Evan Thornton