Features
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BALTZ: Parking phobia to blame for Sherwood speedway
Mixing traffic engineering and politics can have unintended consequences. Take Sherwood Drive, running from Carling Ave near Dow’s Lake to Parkdale Ave...
By Jay Baltz -
World Wide Wednesday: International streetscapes, Montreal parks and too many bikes
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: Capital Bixi, Turkish Transit and the Cycling Etiquite Debate
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Spacing Launched its first...
By Marcus Bowman -
World Wide Wednesday: Three-way streets, Before I Die, Public Space Music Videos
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 -
DOUCET: Turkish transit Part 2: Moving People versus Fixing the Transitway
Once you get into the details, there are so many things that are different about Turkey’s shared transport system from Ottawa’s that it’s difficult to...
By Clive Doucet -
World Wide Wednesday: City games and urban hackery
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: Artscape, Machine Space and Philly’s Waterfront
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Alanah Heffez posts the...
By Marcus Bowman -
World Wide Wednesday: The Whitney, LeafSnap, Climate Change and Tornadoes
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 -
Transit Vision/Transit Reality: Ottawa vs. Ankara, Part 1
I enjoyed Adam Bentley’s transit map vision for Ottawa of the future, but nevertheless found it frustrating that the mindset in my home town can’t think...
By Clive Doucet -
Spacing Saturday: Bixi Bailout, Walkability and the Fort York Bridge
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. As Toronto and Ottawa roll out...
By Marcus Bowman -
WALKSPACE: The amazing hanging puddle and crowdsourcing our own MUP
The City is an amazing bureaucratic machine. It spends most of its time and resources promising, planning, and budgeting. All of that mental heavy lifting...
By Eric Darwin -
World Wide Wednesday: Prague’s Farmers’ Market, Tel Aviv Bike Lanes
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