Spacing Ottawa

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Twelve minutes from the music

World Wide Wednesday: Trouble in paradise and the beauty of dust

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

Events

Photobooth – urban blog night at the Imperial

[flickrslideshow acct_name=”Spacing” id=”72157626213380852″] ______________ Readers and contributors from three Ottawa urbanist...

By Spacing

Events

Ottawa marathon goes urban for visual interest

In a news release today, the people behind Ottawa’s race weekend are talking up their new “more urban” routings, rightly sensing that a...

By Evan Thornton

Features

ERIC DARWIN: Good Neighbours on Snowy Sidewalks

Whether or not you enjoy well-plowed winter sidewalks depends on where you live, when you use them, and your neighbours. Sidewalks get a lot of use in the...

By Eric Darwin

Features

Spacing Saturday: The Don Valley, Urban Camping and Versailles

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Why don’t we go camping...

By Marcus Bowman

Politics

Back to the ’60s: council votes on retro road for southeast commuters

____________ Three plaques went up on Toronto’ s Spadina Avenue last year celebrating the 1971 victory over the never-built Spadina Expressway: a victory...

By Sherry McPhail

Features

Versailles redux

By Clive Doucet

Civic Engagement

News release: Clive Doucet joins Spacing Ottawa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Clive Doucet joins Spacing Ottawa as Urban Policy columnist Ottawa – Ontario- March 2, 2011 – Long-time City Councillor...

By Spacing

Features

World Wide Wednesday: Growth, colour-coded buses and library revival

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

Bikes

Bent rims and soaked pedestrians: is there a better way to drain our streets?

[flickrslideshow acct_name=”spacing” id=”72157625981981811″] __________________ The above images were posted recently by Kathryn...

By Evan Thornton