Urban Design
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UrbSanity: Big and Small, Ottawa’s world-class obsession with being world-class
The Ottawa news cycle is a revolving door of controversies over architecture, landmarks, monuments, and mega- infrastructure and redevelopment projects...
By Sarah Gelbard -
Nepean Place: Centretown’s elevated park
An easily overlooked building in Ottawa’s Centretown features a unique amenity which, while in plain sight from the street, generally goes unnoticed...
By Adrian Phillips -
Pinecrest Creek Renewal: An urban landscape masterplan by Carleton students
What is the best use of public land? Who should be privileged with the best views of the river? How does national identity intersect with everyday use...
By Spacing -
UrbSanity: Architecture, more than we picture
What is architecture and who is an architect? We all sort of know but sort of don’t. I have been studying, designing, and writing about architecture for...
By Sarah Gelbard -
UrbSanity: Kiwi consultation lessons
Now that we are a couple months removed from the public presentations and consultation process for the redevelopment of Lebreton Flats I am anxious to see...
By Spacing -
UrbSanity: LeBreton falls flat on vision and process
While the National Capital Commission was pleased to announce the success of their public consultation with nearly 8,000 responses to the questionnaire on...
By Sarah Gelbard -
UrbSanity: The LeBreton Community
The days and weeks following the public presentations of the two proposals for LeBreton Flats have seen both schemes dissected, analyzed and compared and...
By Spacing -
WWJJD? What would Jane Jacobs do about LeBreton Flats
On Saturday February 6, a group of community leaders, artists, architects, planners, creators, writers, historians, professionals, academics, social...
By Sarah Gelbard -
UrbSanity: 7 bicentennial ideas for the NCC
As buzz grows about our sesquicentennial in 2017, the National Capital Commission wants us to place our sites on the bicentennial. In December the NCC...
By Sarah Gelbard -
News Roundup, January 12
Headlines in and around Ottawa this week: Sink or swim: What to do about the dilapidated pool at 24 Sussex (Bill Curry, The Globe and Mail, 2016.01.06...
By Spacing -
UrbSanity: Streetside spots—new tactics for public space
Last month, the NCC Capital Urbanism Lab hosted a talk with Mike Lydon, co-author of “Tactical Urbanism: Short-term action for longterm change”. The talk...
By Sarah Gelbard -
EVENTS: 2015/16 Ottawa Design Lecture Series
With September marking the start of a new academic year, the past weeks have seen the announcement of multiple public, design-based lecture series and...
By Kristen Gagnon