The Mill, revisited

Several weeks ago I posted on the recently-announced plans to turn the Thompson-Perkins Mill — the site of the late and unlamented Mill Restaurant...

Spacing Saturday: Artscape, Machine Space and Philly’s Waterfront

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Alanah Heffez posts the...

Food is a city space issue

Two food-related stories have been making the rounds in Ottawa this spring. First is the great patio debate: how much should businesses pay for the right...

World Wide Wednesday: The Whitney, LeafSnap, Climate Change and Tornadoes

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...

Transit Vision/Transit Reality: Ottawa vs. Ankara, Part 1

I enjoyed Adam Bentley’s transit map vision for Ottawa of the future, but nevertheless found it frustrating that the mindset in my home town can’t think...

Spacing Saturday: Bixi Bailout, Walkability and the Fort York Bridge

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. As Toronto and Ottawa roll out...

WALKSPACE: The amazing hanging puddle and crowdsourcing our own MUP

The City is an amazing bureaucratic machine. It spends most of its time and resources promising, planning, and budgeting. All of that mental heavy lifting...

Capital Bixi in the rain: a geek’s first ride

Capital BIXI launched this morning; I’ve been waiting for this all spring, so at lunch time I made my escape and went looking for the nearest...

World Wide Wednesday: Prague’s Farmers’ Market, Tel Aviv Bike Lanes

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...

BALTZ: Upzoned developments are no place for a shell game

Spacing Saturday: Fantasy Transit, Eyes on the Street and the Astrolabe Theatre

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Guillaume St-Jean put forward...

Sculpture set to trump theatre at Nepean Point?

One of Ottawa’s outdoor performance spaces, the Astrolabe Theatre—a legacy of the 1967 Centennial celebrations—is slated for demolition by the NCC...