Urban Design

Suburban home: a place for poets?

A previous version of this article appeared in e-architect.co.uk/ They say of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Romantic poet and famous opium addict, that he...

Urbanist’s diary, Week 2: lobbying in two places at once

By Chris Henschel

Places we like: three blogs about buildings and streets

A supportive ecology is crucial to any organism, and Spacing Ottawa is no different. But whereas in many cities in North America our recent splash landing...

Urbanist’s diary: when mainstreet comes to our backyard

This is the first of a multi-part series that will follow environmentalists Chris Henschel and Allegra Newman as they share their first-hand experiences...

Public access to waterfront in Port of Spain, Trinidad

Opinion: Lansdowne is a key city-building project

What better topic to kick off Spacing Ottawa than with Lansdowne Park? It has attracted a great deal of controversy and misinformation, but in looking at...

Is Corktown a bridge too far?

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Counting down for safer crossings

Perhaps you have noticed that you now have to beat the clock when crossing at some intersections around Ottawa. These are countdown timers, and they are...

Art form, bike function: Bank Street bike racks

I stood near the corner of Bank and Somerset one day, puzzled, as I watched a woman struggle to lock her bike to a fence that protected one of the newly...