{"id":9326,"date":"2012-12-23T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2013-03-14T12:57:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T16:57:16","slug":"across-the-ottawa-spaces-23-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/12\/23\/across-the-ottawa-spaces-23-december-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Ottawa Spaces &#8211; 23 December 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eric Darwin<\/strong> presents a series of essays on the Confederation Line LRT as currently planned out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsideaction.com\/confederation-matters-i\/\">comparing what&#8217;s currently envisioned to what was previously designed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsideaction.com\/confederation-matters-ii\/\">noticing the probable consequences for the Place de Ville complex<\/a> (among other parts of Centretown), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsideaction.com\/confederation-line-iii-baby-its-cold-inside\/\">concerns over properly protecting the trains and passengers alike from the elements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joan Spice<\/strong> and assorted members of the Centretown Citizens Community Association put forth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centretownbuzz.com\/2012\/12\/18\/a-community-design-plan-at-last-cdp-could-be-finalized-in-the-next-few-months\/\">some commentary for the <strong>Centretown BUZZ<\/strong><\/a> on the progress in building the Centretown Community Development Plan at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Also courtesy of the BUZZ, <strong>Charles Akben-Marchand<\/strong> reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centretownbuzz.com\/2012\/12\/18\/new-bronson-avenue-public-art-unveiled\/\">new street furniture on Bronson Avenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Images of Centretown shows us some of <a href=\"http:\/\/centretown.blogspot.ca\/2012\/12\/3d-thursday-3d-through-aqueduct-part-1.html\">what&#8217;s been going on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/centretown.blogspot.ca\/2012\/12\/3d-thursday-3d-through-aqueduct-part-2.html\">with the aqueduct running through Lebreton Flats and the Fleet Street pumping station<\/a> as a side effect of the Confederation Line planning and construction process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>URBSite<\/strong> profiles <a href=\"http:\/\/urbsite.blogspot.ca\/2012\/12\/the-topley-studio.html\">photographer William James Topley (1845-1930) and his studio<\/a>, without whom much of early Ottawa&#8217;s visual urban history might be very different. 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