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Park(ing) Day!
Today, Friday, September 16th, is PARK(ing) Day! In cities around the globe, artists, activists and citizens will transform metered parking spaces into...
By Hilary Best -
World Wide Wednesday: Safe Cities, LA Bike Lanes, Park(ing) Day
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 -
Centretowner’s SXSW bicycle shortcut
View Centretowner’s SXSW Cycle route in a larger map Recently in an Images of Centretown post, the author happened to mention one of his favourite...
By Evan Thornton -
Buttoning up with Ottawa’s Transit Map of the Future
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”spacing” id=”72157627506461395″] If you were at the launch of Spacing’s first ever national...
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How condo developers are snubbing the public street – with help from the City
Large property development firms are seldom compared to little domesticated birds. But in some ways they are canaries in the coal mines of the urban...
By Eric Darwin -
World Wide Wednesday: Open source planning, test cities, Change by Us
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 -
Maintenant et avant: Sparks @ Wellington 1885 – 2011
Jadis, Sparks débutait sur Wellington via le pont Dufferin. Ce pont n’existe plus aujourd’hui ainsi que le bureau de poste et l’hôtel Russell...
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Spacing Ottawa presents Next City Café
____ Next City Café is a new monthly discussion forum that explores the spaces, places and ideas that matter in Ottawa. Every 3rd Wednesday of the month...
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World Wide Wednesday: Slow streets, city centre, airport bees
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 -
The City as Machine or the City as Citizen
If I was still a city councilor and traveling around Europe ‘au frais de la princess’ (at public expense), I would be with a group of other city officials...
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Renovating 24 Sussex: a nation’s heritage should trump temporary inconvenience
_____ When future generations want to visit the site where the Prime Ministers who shaped our nation lived, where will they go? 24 Sussex is a toponym in...
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Spacing Saturday: Suburban Transit, Gentrification Agents and Neighbourhood Watch
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Vancouver’s...
By Marcus Bowman
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered