Urban Design
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Street Names: Emily Howard Stowe, MD
Some readers will have already noticed this from previous coverage of streets across Ottawa named for entertainers. However, it seems a good idea to make...
By Dwight Williams -
Next City Cafe: Seeing the Suburbs
The last Next City Cafe of the season looked at what Suburban Ottawa is really like for the people who are daily involved in these spaces and what needs...
By Allegra Newman -
Next City Cafe – Seeing the Suburbs
This Wednesday May 16th at 7:30pm is your last chance this season to come out and participate in the Next City Cafe Seeing the Suburbs Wednesday May 16th...
By Allegra Newman -
Next City Cafe This Wednesday
Spacing Ottawa’s Next City Cafe presents: Wednesday March 21st at 7pm at the Alpha Soul Cafe – 1015 Wellington Street West in Hintonburg...
By Allegra Newman -
BALTZ: Section 37 loopholes now big enough to drive a bus through
In a previous post here last May , I talked about the City’s plans to finally implement the powers granted by “Section 37” of the Ontario Planning Act...
By Jay Baltz -
“Urbanized” and Andrew Cohen tonight at SAW City Debates
This just hit the Spacing Ottawa inblox from the organizers of SAW City Debates: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 7PM Galerie SAW Gallery Screening and...
By Spacing -
In transportation planning, drivers never lose
Here’s the golden rule that is applied whenever a municipal project is being planned: No change can come at a cost to drivers. Here’s how this...
By Alex deVries -
OPINION: Top Ten Ways To Restore Confidence In City Planning
It’s no secret that residents of Ottawa find themselves pitted against the City far too often on planning issues. I was intrigued by a recent “Top...
By Donna Silver -
OPINION: Ten reasons to be optimistic about Ottawa in 2012
2011 was the year in which urban planning and development became the confirmed fashionable topic of conversation around town. What with real estate...
By Alain Miguelez -
The Changing Face of Vanier
The architect’s design slowly emerges as the curved concrete walls of the Wabano Centre are being poured. With the undulating forms of its façade and the...
By Mike Steinhauer -
Pedestrian Paradise
Spacing Ottawa was at City Hall this evening to hear Gil Peñalosa, the former Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for the City of Bogotá, speak at...
By Spacing -
Atlantic Canada’s Densest Neighbourhoods – North End Halifax
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is cross-posted from Spacing Atlantic. So, why density? Residential density, the number of people living in a given...
By Sean Gillis