Photo of the day: In the eye of the Dow

World Wide Wednesday: Public (Space, Art, Transit)

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...

The infill wars: a case study from Old Ottawa South

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The Art of Architecture: Filling you in on infill

Hintonburg resident Phil Castro writes about the intersection of urban development, architecture, and the artistic impulse. In this post he looks at a...

Spacing Saturday: Oval Art, Arena Partnerships and the Urban Plan

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Emile Thomas reflects on the...

Spacing Ottawa’s first Gowalla trip

Cribbing madly from John Leaning’s “Hintonburg and Mechanicsville: A Narrative History“, and the Hintonburg Community Association...

World Wide Wednesday: Streetcars Named Desire

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...

Skyscraperpage Forum, and keeping it private from the man

Above: A digitally-created image of The Shard London Bridge, expected to be completed in 2012. Copyright holder is the Sellar Group. For 13 years...

User ratings coming for Ottawa bike routes

Editor’s note: With the discussion of the proposed segregated Laurier bike lane in the news, the problem of how to get around Ottawa safely by...

Spacing Saturday: Façadism, Carbon Neutrality and Holy Mountain

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

A facade too far

Recently the builders of the Central — a block of condos going in at the corner of Bank and Gladstone –re-installed the preserved facade of...

World Wide Wednesday: Conversation Cars, Phantom Highways and City Love Songs

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...