Needed: feet on the street

This week on Ottawa Morning the CBC’s Julie Ireton is taking an in-depth look at Ottawa’s dysfunctional Sparks Street mall, the national...

World Wide Wedneday: Los Angeles, Denver and Mumbai

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...

SPACING RADIO: City budgets, ferry rides and Olympic legacies

Spacing Radio 017 is on the air. It’s budget-time in Toronto and while City Hall is busy at work approving the final numbers, host David Michael...

Soundscape: Market and Rideau Centre

As an experiment, this past weekend I brought an omni-directional microphone with me during a walk through the Byward Market and Rideau Centre. Starting...

Spacing Saturday

Every Saturday, we highlight recent posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. • A long-anticipated...

Living on the street? Unfortunately, there’s a map for that.

For most of us economic conditions wax and wane with recession and boom, but for the past 20 years one indicator of social-economic well-being in urban...

World Wide Wednesday: Vancouver, Lisboa, and Shanghai

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...

Photo of the day: Central Park

Baseline + 25

By Dwight Williams

Mayor’s race: “I’m not Larry” isn’t going to cut it

Editor’s note: Voting day is still eight months away, but with candidates such as Jim Watson and Alex Cullen already in the running for the...

Spacing Saturday

Every Saturday, we highlight recent posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. • Jenn Casey examines...

Week in review: the headlines

CITY HALL I’m no Marxist proposing living wage (Ottawa Citizen) City to study living wage policy, East end councillors split on issue ( Orleans EMC...