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Designing Safer Streets for a Spooktacular Halloween
Designing safer streets is a year-round priority, with Halloween serving as a reminder of the crucial need for well-planned neighbourhoods that enhance community safety and…
Dreessen: City of Ottawa must be more creative about public spaces
To build attractive, people-friendly venues, we must start with something basic and unsexy: fixing the municipal procurement process. Public places such as libraries, parks, community…
How can Ottawa decrease its tolerance for crap?
Ottawa, as a city, relies on the federal government and National Capital Commission to do the heavy lifting when it comes to our buildings, parks,…
Canada’s building codes and standards need to get with the times
Building codes represent a jurisdiction’s minimum standard for safe structures, and were originally developed with the primary goal of occupant safety. Over time, they have…
Wellington Street — it’s time to think beyond the vehicles
It has been a year since protestors took over Ottawa’s downtown core, rendering streets impassible and fundamentally shifting how we think about public space in…
How tall is tall
How tall is tall video transcript: Hello, thanks for having me here today. In thinking of what to talk about today, I decided I wanted…