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Next City Café 2012: Toxic Cities, Creative Collaboration, Art in the Streets
Spacing Ottawa’s Next City Cafe is taking a break in January but we will be back with more exciting discussions in February, March and April, 2012...
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Spacing Saturday: Urban Screen, City Place and the Family Motel
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Toronto’s...
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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...
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World Wide Wednesday: Dark and empty places, neighbourhood names and parking lots
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 -
OPINION: Top Ten Ways To Restore Confidence In City Planning
It’s no secret that residents of Ottawa find themselves pitted against the City far too often on planning issues. I was intrigued by a recent “Top...
By Donna Silver -
Canal Rideau: maintenant et avant
Canal Rideau 1933 – 2012 Vue du canal pointant vers le nord. On peut voir la gare centrale toujours en opération, l’absence du centre Rideau...
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Spacing Saturday: Optimism, Falling Crime Rates and the Vancouver Special
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Yuri Artibise tells...
By Marcus Bowman -
Book Review: River, Road and Rail — Woodroffe Memories
From time to time, the residents of a particular neighbourhood will try to sum up their perspective on the history of their corner of the world for...
By Dwight Williams -
World Wide Wednesday: Ghettos, hospitals and green zoning
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 -
OPINION: Ten reasons to be optimistic about Ottawa in 2012
2011 was the year in which urban planning and development became the confirmed fashionable topic of conversation around town. What with real estate...
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Somerset West at Lorne Avenue: Rexy Theatre
A small Vietnamese grocery now occupies the entrance hall to what was once a popular neighbourhood movie house in the heart of Chinatown. It was the last...
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CITIES AS CRUCIBLES: Reflections on Canada’s Urban Future
By Francois Lapointe Invenire Books, 2011, softcover, 266 pages “…’place’ is the dominant feature of civilization.” -John Ralston Saul...
By Mark Brandt
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered