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O’CONNELL: Sidewalk Menace, or One Less Car?
A few months ago I entered the glorious world of motherhood. While the first couple months were a bit of a blur, sleep has finally become more common and...
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Spacing Saturday: Lost Villages, Election Distraction and World Heritage Sites
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. As part of Spacing...
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Maintenant et avant: Sussex & Bruyère – vers 1940 & 2011
Les résidences Élizabeth-Bruyère n’ont pas subi de changements notables. Par contre, le bâtiments au sud du Bruyère ont été remplacés par l’ambassade du...
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Considering Public Space in Ottawa: Library & Archives Canada Building
Editor’s note: This article is cross-posted from Spacing Ottawa contributor Chris Warden’s new website dedicated to modernist architecture in...
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World Wide Wednesday: Station art, transportation bills, health care savings
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...
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Contribute photos to Spacing’s next national issue
As we mentioned last week, Spacing will continue to publish a national edition of the magazine twice a year (plus two Toronto-centric editions a year)...
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Street Names: Legends of the Highlands
This story might have started with the publication of Sir Walter Scott‘s historical novels such as discussed here previously, back in the first half...
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Spacing’s next issue will be national
With the success of Spacing’s first national issue — our special summer edition has sold twice as well as any previous issue we’ve ever...
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Pedestrian Paradise
Spacing Ottawa was at City Hall this evening to hear Gil Peñalosa, the former Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for the City of Bogotá, speak at...
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World Wide Wednesday: Healthy cities, arenas, historic sites
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...
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DARWIN: City takes tact lesson from the NCC
Recall the kerfuffle about the NCC closing and then reopening the Preston “Extension”, and then closing it again, then tossing he blame to the City, then...
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Street Names: Echoes of the Riel Rebellions
_____ It’s starting to become a habit: research for one project hereabouts leads to surprising connections to other things that you didn’t...
By Dwight Williams
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered