That's right, Spacing is now offering a subscription to readers who only want to get our national edition! It'll cost you $15 for 2 issues, or $25 for 4 issues. Even better, you can buy it as a gift subscription for someone else! Up until the summer of 2011, the print edition of Spacing had been primarily focused on Toronto urban issues. We happily launched a special national issue in June (we even had an event in July at the NAC's 4th Stage in Ottawa to celebrate the release). The editors of Spacing have ...

photo by Erinn Cunningham

If you can spare 30 or 40 seconds, watch the behaviour of the rushing vehicles in this video, and then compare the numbers of cars and trucks with how many pedestrians are using the sidewalks at this major intersection -- it's the corner of Somerset and Bronson. Somehow the City's traffic engineers would have us believe that widening this road even further will be the best way to achieve a safer street - a street already notorious for its unfriendly pedestrian environment. If you think the City's ...

Spacing Ottawa was at City Hall this evening to hear Gil Peñalosa, the former Commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for the City of Bogotá, speak at Urban Forum's Mobility Summit. Peñalosa is now the Executive Director of 8- 80 Cities, a Toronto-based non-profit that advocates for better walking and cycling infrastructure in cities. Peñalosa creates a real sense of urgency around his topic and absolutely radiates enthusiasm for what can be done - and what is being done - to make cities around the world ...

Across the Spacing urban blog network each week we're asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us know their favourite things about their respective city. THIS WEEK: What is your favourite pedestrian bridge(s) in Ottawa? If possible, please provide a link to a photo you are commenting about. We suggest using Flickr as the photographers that use this site usually provide the best quality images (and often with ...

It was a slow and dignified procession this morning as hundreds of Ottawans walked, cycled, or pushed their bikes along Queen Street to the site of the tragic accident that took the life of Danielle Naçu one week ago today. According to radio reports this morning organizers had been hoping for 300 people at the event but by a rough head count of the people walking past our camera it appears that about 700 set off from the staging point; more joined the procession en route.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Drinking and thinking: together at last!"][/caption] ____ What's that you say -- a pub quiz for Ottawa history buffs? No tedious questions about brat-pack movies of the 1980s or tortuous references to Kurt Cobain lyrics? And did someone say "pub"? Sign us up! From our friends at the Bytown Museum: Sunday October 16: Pub Quiz, Bytown Museum Style! Who was Bytown named after? Which local school did that famous Friend attend? That's right; we want to test your Bytown and Ottawa knowledge. Bring your team to DArcy McGees on Sparks Street on October 16 at 2 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0I3KBck33R0 Several years ago it was Spacing Ottawa's pleasure to spend time with the BBC broadcaster and blogger Malachi O'Doherty when he was in town for the Ottawa International Writer's festival. We accompanied Malachi and his partner Maureen as they explored downtown Ottawa on foot, and since that meeting we have enjoyed keeping up with his many observations on life in his native Belfast. Lately Malachi has rediscovered his childhood love of the bicycle and has started looking at his city through the eyes of a cyclist, for better or for worse. With this week's terrible cycling news still fresh ...