Urban Design

BALTZ: Five Reasons Intensification Could Fail

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MIGUELEZ: Five Reasons Intensification Will Work

Editor’s note: For residents of Ottawa’s core neighbourhoods, change is in the air. Mainstreets from Westboro to Centretown have being...

The Urban Gondola: perfect fit for a capital horizon

____ The Ottawa River is an urban feature that has united and yet also divided local inhabitants. For centuries, people have exploited both the space...

Underpass memories should not be extinguished

__ Earlier this summer, the National Capital Commission (NCC) announced intentions to construct a commemorative monument to Lord Stanley at a revamped...

Rodney Tolley: “People want to walk”

Next week our friends at Urban Forum are bringing internationally-known walking researcher Dr. Rodney Tolley (seen above) to Ottawa for a presentation...

The Mill, revisited

Several weeks ago I posted on the recently-announced plans to turn the Thompson-Perkins Mill — the site of the late and unlamented Mill Restaurant...

BALTZ: Upzoned developments are no place for a shell game

Inaccessible restaurant to become inaccessible brew pub

By Evan Thornton

Hintonburg Hub: Will the City do the right thing?

About 150 people came to the Hintonburg Community centre on April 4 to hear about plans for the “Hintonburg Hub.” The Hub, still in the conceptual stage...

Queen Street: making the mediocre even worse

The loss of amenity is noticeable when an attractive bit of the pedestrian realm or sidewalk is adversely affected by adjacent developments. The contrast...

Our urban environment is over-fenced

Do good fences really make good neighbours? We’re into the depths of winter and for those of us who love being outside without 14 layers of clothing...

Infill, Part 3: Katherine Hobbs with a crucial difference

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