Features
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Spacing Ottawa presents Next City Café
____ Next City Café is a new monthly discussion forum that explores the spaces, places and ideas that matter in Ottawa. Every 3rd Wednesday of the month...
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World Wide Wednesday: Slow streets, city centre, airport bees
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
The City as Machine or the City as Citizen
If I was still a city councilor and traveling around Europe ‘au frais de la princess’ (at public expense), I would be with a group of other city officials...
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Spacing Saturday: Suburban Transit, Gentrification Agents and Neighbourhood Watch
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Vancouver’s...
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Ottawa : maintenant et avant
_______ Cette comparaison entre une photo d’archives et une photo plus actuelle est la première d’une série où l’on tentera de mettre en contraste...
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World Wide Wednesday: Bike lights, car decline, rail lines
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Spacing Saturday: Rental Housing, Haphazard Development and Underpass Park
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Waterfront Toronto...
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Trip hazards and visual clutter: boxed in by the grey intruders
The City is the prime controller of the pedestrian environment. It can make it better, a little bit at a time, and we will eventually end up with a...
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World Wide Wednesday: Cycling monuments, Endangered places, Pop-Up Playgrounds
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
The Daly Building Revisited
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”66414821@N06″ id=”72157627435525540″] No other Ottawa building, before or after its demolition, has...
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World Wide Wednesday: Luminaires, Luminato, Graffiti Surge
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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Bottom-up design stands test of time: slaves’ seats still comfortable after 2000 years
It’s been about 1,500 years since the south of France was a Roman province but the remains of that civilization and its 500 years of settlement here are...
By Clive Doucet