Urban Design

Orléans roundabout: ready to assist your street-crossing needs

[flickr dwight_ew 72157625461810084] Flickr photoset used by permission of Dwight Williams Despite every appearance of still being a work in progress, the...

Bronson road diet – the video

The struggle to put Bronson Avenue on a road diet instead of rebuilding it with wider car lanes is ramping up, with a community meeting scheduled for this...

Rebranding Ottawa

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="Amsterdam Logo from CitID collection"] By Spacing

Centretown the good, Centretown the not-so-good

Urban Forum fall series announced

This was just sent to us by the organizers of the excellent Urban Forum series: Trees and Suburban Houses: Roots and Foundations – the underground...

Ottawa’s Alphabet Village

This started out as another one of the “Street Names” stories. Once my digging began, though, it turned into a story about a neighbourhood that most...

Doucet’s transit plan: mind the gaps

Editor’s note: This week mayoral candidate Clive Doucet renewed the debate around the future of Ottawa transit by announcing a plan that would use...

Should “greening” Lansdowne mean paving the Greenbelt?

The following letter was sent to us by Spacing Ottawa reader Jason Garlough, who is a member of City of Ottawa’s Forests and Greenspace Advisory...

Roof-to-fork in Centretown

The Resurgence of the Front Porch

Erin O’Connell is an urban planner who has worked in both the private and public sectors. She enjoys thinking about urban design, cycling to work, and...

Intersection from Hell

Focus on food hurting City’s vision for farmers’ markets

__________ Last month’s unseasonably warm weather has had me looking forward the 2010 farmers’ market season. While cautious in my own gardening habits �...