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Ottawa : maintenant et avant
_______ Cette comparaison entre une photo d’archives et une photo plus actuelle est la première d’une série où l’on tentera de mettre en contraste...
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World Wide Wednesday: Bike lights, car decline, rail lines
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 -
Spacing Saturday: Rental Housing, Haphazard Development and Underpass Park
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Waterfront Toronto...
By Marcus Bowman -
Reminder – Urban Drinks tonight at the Shanghai
Full details here – we’d love to see you!
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Trip hazards and visual clutter: boxed in by the grey intruders
The City is the prime controller of the pedestrian environment. It can make it better, a little bit at a time, and we will eventually end up with a...
By Eric Darwin -
World Wide Wednesday: Cycling monuments, Endangered places, Pop-Up Playgrounds
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 Daly Building Revisited
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”66414821@N06″ id=”72157627435525540″] No other Ottawa building, before or after its demolition, has...
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Urban Drinks: The summer edition!
What: The summer installment of Urban Drinks, the evening cocktail party co-shaken by the Apartment 613, Open File Ottawa, and Spacing Ottawa blogs. When...
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OPINION: It’s time we made sidewalk blockers pay
Have we lost our collective ability to live in the city – to be true cityzens? Now that suburban generations have existed for almost 70 years, have our...
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World Wide Wednesday: Luminaires, Luminato, Graffiti Surge
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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Sussex and George: The case of the disappearing view
_______ This past week, Chapters’ Rideau Street store reopened their childrens’ section on the second floor, newly rebranded as part of their...
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Bottom-up design stands test of time: slaves’ seats still comfortable after 2000 years
It’s been about 1,500 years since the south of France was a Roman province but the remains of that civilization and its 500 years of settlement here are...
By Clive Doucet
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered