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Image of the Moment: Ottawa Race Weekend
Image: 40th Anniversary Marathon, Ottawa Race Weekend Location: Looking North up Colonel By Drive from the Laurier Bridge, Ottawa, Canada Date of...
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Spacing Ottawa Event: Beaver Barracks Site Tour
WHAT: Site visit and walking tour of the Beaver Barracks, community rental housing development WHEN: June 21, 1pm WHERE: Beaver Barracks, 464 Metcalfe...
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Image of the Moment: The Canadian Tulip Festival
Image: 62nd Canadian Tulip Festival Location: Commissioner’s Park, Dow’s Lake, Ottawa, Canada Date of photo: May 10, 2014...
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EVENT: Jane’s Walk Ottawa 2014
WHAT: Jane’s Walk Ottawa 2014 WHEN: Saturday + Sunday, May 3-4, 2014 WHERE: Various locations throughout Ottawa COST: Free, unless otherwise noted...
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‘Animating the Rideau Canal’: Queen’s University students take a look at the possibilities for one of Ottawa’s major waterways
A recurring topic of discourse and debate currently taking place in Ottawa, and as noted in many recent articles on Spacing Ottawa, is how to better use...
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Ottawa’s Waterfronts: An under utilized asset
For a city so geographically framed by its waterways, Ottawa often struggles to find meaningful means to engage with its water frontages. This will...
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A pocket park for Ottawa?
With the growing urban design trend of pocket parks, where miniature leftover city spaces are adapted to become little urban oases, a city so plentiful in...
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Strathcona Park: A look back
On the edge of the Rideau River, and embraced by the community of Sandy Hill, is Strathcona Park; an urban oasis which has been a popular outdoor retreat...
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Carleton’s Urbanism students show how design studios are connecting with the community
As the current issue of Spacing magazine, featuring a cover story on urbanism in education, spends its final days on newsstands, Spacing Ottawa takes a...
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Image of the Moment: Central Experimental Farm
Location: The Central Experimental Farm Date of photo: December 16 2013 Temperature: -21°C Photographer: Kristen Gagnon After a near record daily snowfall...
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“The Washington of the North”: How Ottawa became the Capital it is today, reflections on a lecture by Professor David Gordon
Last Thursday evening, listeners at the National Gallery were treated to a lecture on Ottawa’s urban history by Dr. David Gordon, Professor of planning...
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Biophilic Design: Could Ottawa’s Rockcliffe Lands be the first biophilic redevelopment in Canada?
Image by: Viliam Glazduri Story by Katherine Forster, Urban Biophilic Facilitator You’ve heard the news: get your Vitamin N, enjoy a forest-bath...
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