Vintage Ottawa

We came across this little gem recently on YouTube — it’s a 1940s newsreel-style trailer, produced for MGM studios, created to show American...

World Wide Wednesday: Mobile Food, Noisy Hybrids, Fighting for the Empire, Moscow Traffic

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-hyVzTVDLg[/youtube] Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban...

The Dog Days of Summer Campaign

September is approaching and campaigns are picking up the pace. Candidates are starting to roll out their platforms. Pressure groups are lining up debates...

Sacred space, secular use: downtown churches turn to the arts

This summer Chamberfest once again highlighted churches as fantastic downtown arts venues. Re-imagining or re-purposing “the church” is happening a lot...

Photo of the day: Late Train

photo by Érinn Cunningham

Mapping Ottawa’s cycling hazards – an interview with Alex deVries

This past week the City launched a “Cycling Safety Evaluation Project”.  A major component of the project is an online survey that asks...

World Wide Wednesday: Where in the world?

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...

Photo of the day: World of Maps

photo by Justin Van Leeuwen

Roof-to-fork in Centretown

Making the grade for bikes: how much separation is enough?

The other day I came across this odd length of one-way street in Hintonburg.  It’s a short block joining Armstrong to Wellington Street West but it...

Days are numbered for the express bus: Candidate Cullen defends hub-and-spoke

Editor’s note:  The following is cross-posted from Spacing Ottawa contributor Peter Raaymakers’ site, Public Transit in Ottawa. For this...

Storefront banking in retreat: a new kind of desert on the horizon

On Friday July 23, 2010, a signal change happened at the Fallingbrook Mall in Orléans: the local branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce –...