Winnipeg: the long slow victory of the Exchange District

SUMMER SHORTS PODCAST: Riding “the Clockwork Orange”

LISTEN TO TODAY’S SPACING RADIO PODCAST Sometimes exploring a city means just shutting your eyes and listening. In this soundscape, Spacing producer...

World Wide Wednesday: The US edition (plus parking)

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...

PODCAST: Listen to Spacing’s 5-part series on G20

It has been over three weeks since the G20 Summit left Toronto but the actions of protesters and police are still lingering. Spacing Radio‘s podcast...

Vacant Lot wanted

“Hyperallergina” is an artist from Montréal who has obtained a small grant to work with a vacant lot in Ottawa to try to give it more visual...

Street Names: Wellington, ByWard and By

In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed a debate over whether or not one of the central streets of the downtown core should be renamed. As a result of that...

The strategist and the policy wonk – at last a contest for both

What a difference a few weeks make. It seems we have a mayoral race. It wasn’t much of a surprise when Mayor Larry O’Brien announced his...

Intersection from Hell

Spacing Saturday

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Veronica Simmonds profiles a...

Has the O-Train made its mark?

In the midst of the ongoing debate about the future of Light Rail Transit it Ottawa it can be easy to forget that we’ve now had LRT rolling through...

Focus on food hurting City’s vision for farmers’ markets

__________ Last month’s unseasonably warm weather has had me looking forward the 2010 farmers’ market season. While cautious in my own gardening habits â€...

Future of interprovincial transit looking good – on paper

Editor’s note: The following post originally appeared in Public Transit in Ottawa; it is published here by the author’s consent. On Tuesday...