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Opinion: downtown library vital to entire region
Last month the Ottawa Citizen ran an opinion piece by Mark Sutcliffe about what he alleges is a lack of a “business case” to justify the construction of a...
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Photo of the Day: Winter Panorama
photo by Gordon Bonnar
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Spacing Saturday: Sky Dome, Heritage Apartments, and the Historic Halifax Common
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Chris Erb comments on the...
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Bring on bi-weekly garbage collection: open letter to City Council
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The “Grand Dames”: Ottawa’s historic apartment buildings
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”58115594@N04″ id=”72157625788601334″] __________________ The Bytown Museum explores the stories of an...
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World Wide Wednesday: Bungalows, Stats, Maps and Quiet Train Cars
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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Too small for a park, too awkward to sell? There’s a Community Design Plan for that.
South Fairfield Heights CDP What do you do with public land left over from an infrastructure project that is too awkwardly shaped to subdivide and resell...
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Photo of the day: South March Highlands demonstration
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”tjfl” id=”72157625783394338″] Some pictures from Saturday’s’s demonstration in front of...
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Spacing Saturday: Ice Bridge, Public Squares and Uptown St John
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Alanah Heffez looks into the...
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Garden of the Provinces and Territories: Best “least-known” public space in Ottawa?
Following up on the previous post, below are my original notes for “best public space in Ottawa” the multi-part piece Maria Cook put together...
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World Wide Wednesday: Bike Art, Web-City, Streetcars
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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MacKenzie King OC Transpo station: worst public space in Ottawa?
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”ekthornton” id=”72157625584286577″ width=”600″] A few weeks ago the Ottawa Citizen...
By Evan Thornton
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered