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Across the Ottawa Spaces – 13 March 2013
Some recent items of interest: Sarah Gelbard of YOWLab details for the Centretown BUZZ five issues that anyone in a condominium development – or...
By Dwight Williams -
The City, the act, and Lansdowne Park
Last month, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that as a matter of law under the present Ontario Municipal Act, the City’s June 2010 decision to move...
By Tim Lash -
Forgotten Vanier: The Butler Motor Hotel
The following article by Spacing Ottawa contributor Mike Steinhauer is cross-posted from VanierNow.ca, a new blog about the one square-mile...
By Mike Steinhauer -
The cycling Lansdowne situation, in short.
Over the last week, on my own blog I’ve been writing about details of the cycling aspect of the Lansdowne transportation plans. Those five articles...
By Alex deVries -
DOUCET: “Beauty counts”- how Budapest cherishes its World Heritage status
On a bronze plaque, high above the Danube where you have a grand view of the bridges, the Hungarian parliament buildings and the beautiful 19th century...
By Clive Doucet -
Chinatown’s Lucky Eight, with Eric Darwin and Gowalla
The second Spacing Ottawa Gowalla trip went online this week. Drawing heavily on the excellent West Side Action blog by community activist Eric Darwin of...
By Spacing -
Spacing Ottawa’s first Gowalla trip
Cribbing madly from John Leaning’s “Hintonburg and Mechanicsville: A Narrative History“, and the Hintonburg Community Association...
By Spacing -
The day they blew the south side up
Spacing Ottawa was launched a year after this demolition took place, so we couldn’t link to this video when it was first uploaded — but we...
By Evan Thornton -
The meeting of the mega-projects: A tunnel for Bank Street
Editor’s note: Many commentators have noted that the decision by Mayor O’Brien to run again in this fall’s municipal elections means...
By Dwight Williams -
Lansdowne vote: dark day, or a new dawn?
In a 15-9 vote last night Ottawa City Council approved the Lansdowne Live partnership. While Spacing Ottawa took no position on the redevelopment — our...
By Evan Thornton -
Opinion: Bits and pieces tactic masks the real goal of Landsowne plans
Editor’s note: The following opinion piece by Tim Lash takes the form of an open letter to decision-makers and the general public in advance of the...
By Tim Lash -
Photos of a landmark withered away: 50 years of Lansdowne inertia
Editor’s note: The following post first appeared in Marie-Judith Jean-Louis’s Modern Ottawa (MOOT) blog. Passionate about modern and...
By Marie-Judith Jean-Louis