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Good will on our streets: The Art of Swap
A few years ago little wooden boxes started appearing, nailed to telephone poles across Ottawa. Inscribed with the motto “Take something –...
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Revisiting the front porch
In many neighbourhoods in Ottawa, front porches seem like holdovers from another age. They are so rarely used, it’s almost as if residents are now...
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Spacing Saturday
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. In Halifax, Katie McKay shows...
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The meeting of the mega-projects: A tunnel for Bank Street
Editor’s note: Many commentators have noted that the decision by Mayor O’Brien to run again in this fall’s municipal elections means...
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World Wide Wednesday: Transit maps, subway stations, and monorails
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...
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Lansdowne vote: dark day, or a new dawn?
In a 15-9 vote last night Ottawa City Council approved the Lansdowne Live partnership. While Spacing Ottawa took no position on the redevelopment — our...
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Headlines: The week in review
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Opinion: Renaming Wellington Street would be an act of historical amnesia
Editor’s note: Immanuel Giulea is the Founder and Executive Director of the Société Macdonald-Cartier Society. Ottawa’s civic holiday in August is...
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World Wide Wednesday: Flip bridges, sewer diving, and the death of starchitecture
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...
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Opinion: Bits and pieces tactic masks the real goal of Landsowne plans
Editor’s note: The following opinion piece by Tim Lash takes the form of an open letter to decision-makers and the general public in advance of the...
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Street names: the stories behind the signs
Anecdote, urban legend, sometimes even myth: we don’t usually associate such descriptors with the street map of our city, but there is a story...
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Spacing Saturday
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. From the Rock, Andrew Harvey...
By Marcus Bowman
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered