Features
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Spacing Saturday: Surprise Appearances, Making Space for Recreation and a Resident’s Alliance
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. In the Marpole...
By Marcus Bowman -
Photo of the day: Cancer Survivors Park
Cancer Survivors Park, Alta Vista Drive at Riverside Drive — photo by Justin Van Leeuwen.
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A second chance to walk it right
If you ride the transitway along Scott Street you will pass through Westboro Station. It looks pretty ordinary. But if you go up the stairs to the Scott...
By Eric Darwin -
Spacing Saturday: Urban Laneways, Rethinking Density and News Café
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Spacing Vancouver...
By Marcus Bowman -
“Great places are shaped by the people that use them”
____ Editor’s note: Last week Spacing Ottawa contributor Allegra Newman joined with blogger. Eric Darwin and urban planner George Dark on a panel...
By Allegra Newman -
World Wide Wednesday: Bamboo bike, sea spires and quiet time
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: Transportation 2040, New Regionalism and Guerilla Gardening
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Brian Gould takes...
By Marcus Bowman -
Gritty Bologna is the Cinderella city
Ravenna is only about an hour from Bologna by a slow train but what a difference an hour makes. Ravenna is a three star tourist city in line for the...
By Clive Doucet -
World Wide Wednesday: Climate bowls, city cams and carmaggedon
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: Bold Transit Funding, Neighbourhood Memories and the Car in the City
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Spacing reports on...
By Marcus Bowman -
City’s blind eye to street furniture is a blessing for pedestrians
Our cities do provide some benches. They are often found in designated parks. In Ottawa, the NCC provides lots of benches in its riparian green spaces...
By Eric Darwin -
World Wide Wednesday: Transfer Accelerators, London Tube Map
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