Streetscape
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Image of the Moment: Mayflower No More
A fixture of the Elgin Street food and drink landscape for over 35 years, the Mayflower Restaurant and Pub ended its days in October of 2013. It will be...
By Dwight Williams -
Across the Ottawa Spaces – 31 October 2013
Some highlights from across the Ottawa blogosphere: Over at Centretown News, Christopher Dick details the plan to turn the Central Lawn Bowling Club into...
By Spacing -
A photographic flâneur through downtown Ottawa
It was an unseasonably cold and rainy day this past July when I started to get restless, feeling as though I had been stuck in the house all day, and...
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Urban Forum Ottawa Report: Designing a healthy immune system for a healthy city
Last night’s lecture entitled “The Healthy City: Shaping the Public Realm” by Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D. (Arch) presented suggestions on...
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Image of the Moment: Sign Bylaw Irony
Does this qualify as a sort of ironic approach to the issue of postering?
By Dwight Williams -
Across the Ottawa Spaces – 25 July 2013
A selection of Ottawa-focused articles from across the Internet in recent weeks… Urbsite profiles the previous Ottawa City Hall Building (now known...
By Dwight Williams -
Across the Ottawa Spaces: June 2013
Another selection of weblog entries covering infrastructure and history across the city: Eric Darwin comes across a German innovation in empty-can...
By Dwight Williams -
Street Names: The American Strain
Previously, the intersection of Mulder and Scully in Orléans opened up the discussion of streets in Ottawa named for fictional characters and places. But...
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Across the Ottawa Spaces – 1 April 2013
Some highlights from across the Ottawa blogosphere: At West Side Action, Eric Darwin offers some suggestions about the art of the argument at city...
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Across the Ottawa Spaces: March 23, 2013
From the local blogs, here’s some recent items of possible interest… Images of Centretown posts about what was hoped to be the “last...
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Image of the Moment – Rescue Dog
This was new to me when I spotted it next to the Boer War Monument in Confederation Park recently. I’d wondered aloud if anyone knew the story...
By Dwight Williams -
Across the Ottawa Spaces – 13 March 2013
Some recent items of interest: Sarah Gelbard of YOWLab details for the Centretown BUZZ five issues that anyone in a condominium development – or...
By Dwight Williams