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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...
By Spacing -
Across the Ottawa Spaces – 23 September 2013
Eric Darwin speculates on several possible fates for the Talent O-Train consists once the new Alstom trains are in service, and also discusses the new...
By Dwight Williams -
Image of the Moment – Transit Intersect
Taken by Adam Hunt on July 23rd, originally posted publicly on his Diaspora account. We’ll let the photographer explain the context in his own...
By Dwight Williams -
Image of the Moment – Lebreton Overview
Taken by Chuck Clark, this image shows the progress of redevelopment in Lebreton Flats as well as the preparations of the western end of the Downtown...
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 -
Subway delayed, new tramway hits Casablanca
Casablanca has unveiled a new tramway system that connects the east and west ends of the city through the downtown core. The $1.6 billion project has seen...
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Hand drawn map of Japan’s intricate rail system
Artist Wyton Cho has hand drawn Japan’s rail system. The colourful lines intersect and meet at stations, and present an immediate sense of how vast...
By Jonathan Zettel -
10 questions to ask a transit planner
Cities are full of armchair transit planners — so much so, in fact, that the practice is derisively known as “drawing lines on a map.” But it’s far more...
By Spacing -
Across the Ottawa Spaces – 23 December 2012
Eric Darwin presents a series of essays on the Confederation Line LRT as currently planned out, comparing what’s currently envisioned to what was...
By Dwight Williams -
The Reinvention of CFB Rockcliffe: Beginning Again
Building a new neighbourhood from scratch can be the work of at least a decade these days. From the initial proposal to change a property’s zoning...
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One Day in the Life of OC Transpo
Thanks to fellow contributor David McClelland for finding this particular map-animation linkage…
By Dwight Williams -
Place d’Orleans Station – a Sunday Night at 9:49 PM
Offered without comment.
By Dwight Williams