A river runs near it: re-orienting the Carleton quad

Every five years or so, Carleton University revisits its master plan. The most recent draft edition was released in September 2009. Though the campus has...

World Wide Wednesday: Moscow, Vancouver and America’s high-speed rail

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...

Opinion: a reborn Union Station could hold our history

Editor’s note: an earlier version of this post appeared in Spacing Ottawa contributor Dave McClelland’s Ottawa Project blog Ottawa’s Union...

Mayoral Ottawa: from Fun Frank to Fisher’s Folly

When it was recently announced that Jim Watson would be joining the mayoral race, I began to think about mayors and their stamps of the city’s built...

Urbanist’s diary: developer takes a walk

Spacing Saturday

Spacing Saturday is a new feature that highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region...

Week in review: the headlines

CITY HALL • Council passes budget, 3.77% tax hike. Bus routes, tree trimming slated for cuts win reprieve, but at cost of higher transit fares (Ottawa...

Where in Ottawa, Round 2: time for the cheat sheet

No one has correctly guessed the correct answer to last week’s puzzler. To refresh memories, here it is again: While I currently sit unassumingly at...

World Wide Wednesday: Portland, Detroit and Port-au-Prince

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...

The history of the Ottawa subway

As Ottawa takes decisive steps toward giving itself a downtown subway, it is fascinating to find that this is actually the fourth time that plans for...

Urbanist’s diary: a side street “closed longer than anyone remembers”

This is the latest in a multi-part series that follows environmentalists Chris Henschel and Allegra Newman as they share their first-hand experiences...

Spacing Saturday

Spacing Saturday is a new feature that highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region...