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Spacing Saturday: CanU, Safe Cycling and the Legg Residence
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Brian Gould reports...
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Ottawa Knowledge: who will be Team Awesome?
____ What’s that you say — a pub quiz for Ottawa history buffs? No tedious questions about brat-pack movies of the 1980s or tortuous...
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A Little Miracle
Several years ago it was Spacing Ottawa’s pleasure to spend time with the BBC broadcaster and blogger Malachi O’Doherty when he was in town...
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Le musée des beaux-arts & la première imprimerie du Canada – vers 1910 & 2011
La basilique Notre-Dame et le Musée des beaux-arts du Canada vus du parc Major’s Hill. Le musée occupe ce qui fut jadis l’emplacement de la première...
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World Wide Wednesday: Stolen bridges and brutalist preservation
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 -
Photo of the Day: high above Queen Street
This compact view doesn’t do anything like justice to the latest cityscape captured by Justin Van Leeuwen; to get a much better view — and...
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Notes taken: Everyday Cyclists and the Next City Café
“Everyday Cycling” is an inclusive term that can be used to describe anyone who rides a bike for any reason: for sport, for dropping kids at...
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Spacing Saturday: French Highways, Yaletown Park and Collective Imagination
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Sean Gillis...
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Cities with no highways and highways with no debt: what’s wrong with France?
The question you see often posed with some bewilderment in Canada and the U.S. is – what is the matter with the French? Why can’t they get it...
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World Wide Wednesday: Participatory budgeting and underground parks
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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Farewell to Elmaks, creator of the Swap Box
________ There was some sad news over the past weekend of the passing of “Elmaks” the artist behind the delightful Swap Box creations. Elmaks...
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Photo of the Day: Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walk
photo by Justin Van Leeuwen
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered