The second Spacing Ottawa Gowalla trip went online this week. Drawing heavily on the excellent West Side Action blog by community activist Eric Darwin of the Dalhousie Community Association, the interpretive tour takes the walker past eight Chinatown attractions from the impossible-to-miss splendour of the Royal Chinatown Arch through lesser-known oddities like a Dutch-style woonerf and the so-called "staircase house" built into the rock face of an escarpment, with a few stops for authentic Chinatown refreshments along the way. Gowalla trips are best enjoyed from a smart phone or mobile device connected ...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Check-in #6 on the Spacing Ottawa walking tour of Hintonburg's Built Heritage"][/caption] Cribbing madly from John Leaning's "Hintonburg and Mechanicsville: A Narrative History", and the Hintonburg Community Association website we've come up with our first trip designed for users of the Gowalla location-based social network. The trip is called "Hintonburg's Built Heritage" and it has eleven check-ins including two structures designed by Francis Sullivan, the only Canadian student of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Other highlights include an art-deco tavern, a geological fault line, and something that just came over ...