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Revealed: a crack house from the inside
For years Hintonburg and Mechanicsville have been working to shake their unwelcome and usually exaggerated association with drugs, prostitution and...
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Best wishes for the holidays from Spacing Ottawa
Spacing Ottawa is signing off for a few days to enjoy the season with family and friends, but before we do we’d like to thank our readers andÂ...
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Consolation for cloud-cover: Ottawa’s tweet map of the lunar eclipse
Monday night’s lunar eclipse was the first in centuries to coincide with a solstice. Much to my disappointment, the cloud cover in Ottawa was too...
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World Wide Wednesday: Urban Safari, Cyclist Species, City Happy
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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How Did Tramways Make it Through Montreal’s Winters?
Editor’s note: Last week’s snowstorm combined with the recent positive news about the feasibility of boring a transit tunnel under...
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When truth is stranger than fiction: the capital that sits on another nation’s land
When I took on the task of writing an update on the Algonquin land claim, I was unaware of the controversy I’d find. Unifying steps toward a “modern-day...
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“Why not potholes?”– Ushahidi ready for Ottawa streets
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World Wide Wednesday: Cycling chat, clusters and Corbusier
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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Railways to Pathways: new rural/urban connections
Railways to Pathways View more presentations from SpacingOttawa. The City of Ottawa will complete two rural pathways this spring, improving urban...
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How social housing gets to your backyard — and avoids the OMB on the way
I was lucky enough to be the audience for last week’s edition of the excellent Urban Forum series at City Hall . Those in attendance heard Marni...
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Spacing Saturday: Citizen’s Agora, Presto 2.0 and Sustainable Christmas Trees
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Alanah Heffez reports on the...
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Low-carbon Christmas comes to Parkdale Market
Every December the great debate sprouts up among environmentally conscious Christmas celebrators: Will it be a mono-cropped, aromatic tree this year? Or a...
By Heather Yundt
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered