Urban Design
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Forest defence and civic life – open letter to defenders of Kanata’s Beaver Pond
Editor’s note: Spacing Ottawa contributor Tim Lash has authored the following open letter to the activists and community leaders advocating for...
By Tim Lash -
Aerial photographer touches down for Urban Forum
_____________________ The organizers at Urban Forum have sent us notice of their next event: Wednesday, February 16th 2011 7:00 pm Ottawa City Hall...
By Spacing -
The infill wars: a case study from Old Ottawa South
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By Alain Miguelez -
The Art of Architecture: Filling you in on infill
Hintonburg resident Phil Castro writes about the intersection of urban development, architecture, and the artistic impulse. In this post he looks at a...
By Apartment613 -
Skyscraperpage Forum, and keeping it private from the man
Above: A digitally-created image of The Shard London Bridge, expected to be completed in 2012. Copyright holder is the Sellar Group. For 13 years...
By Spacing -
Too small for a park, too awkward to sell? There’s a Community Design Plan for that.
South Fairfield Heights CDP What do you do with public land left over from an infrastructure project that is too awkwardly shaped to subdivide and resell...
By Adam Bentley -
Photo of the day: South March Highlands demonstration
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”tjfl” id=”72157625783394338″] Some pictures from Saturday’s’s demonstration in front of...
By Spacing -
Garden of the Provinces and Territories: Best “least-known” public space in Ottawa?
Following up on the previous post, below are my original notes for “best public space in Ottawa” the multi-part piece Maria Cook put together...
By Evan Thornton -
MacKenzie King OC Transpo station: worst public space in Ottawa?
[flickrslideshow acct_name=”ekthornton” id=”72157625584286577″ width=”600″] A few weeks ago the Ottawa Citizen...
By Evan Thornton -
How social housing gets to your backyard — and avoids the OMB on the way
I was lucky enough to be the audience for last week’s edition of the excellent Urban Forum series at City Hall . Those in attendance heard Marni...
By Evan Thornton -
Mid-Centretown planner — “if projects are not sitting in a city’s 10 year capital plan they are not going to happen”
MCT Open House #2 View more presentations from SpacingOttawa. Landscape Architect George Dark and his Urban Strategies group have been retained by the...
By Spacing -
Street names: the entertainers
Call this a work in progress. Also, expect this category to be revisited. With those two caveats out of the way, we’ll begin with this thought: In...
By Dwight Williams