Favourite journey: travel here by train from Parkin's Ottawa Train Sration

At least the costly promised-but-never-built timber screens on the north side stand do not have to be demolished to make way for more condos in 2.0.

How it started. Would not be surprising to see towers populating the "Great Lawn" someday.

@bsky.app A few images of Lansdowne 1.0 as depicted by OSEG 15 years ago, and approved by Council. The promised public space was not provided, but is instead large format commercial space. #Ottawa

Early mural by my 1st year studio prof Winston Leathers now turning into a ghost sign, posing a #conservation question: let it fade away like many others around it or restore its original 70s pop intensity? #modern #heritage

However, we broke it, which means we can fix it. #urbanism

The narrow sidewalks, signage clutter, harsh lighting, traffic signals and of course all the parking infrastructure are retrofitted coping mechanisms to deal with a bad personal transportation solution we've all bought into. #baddesign #carsruincities

We are constantly told streets are designed for cars. While this may be true of areas built after WW2, it's obviously not true of central areas which were planned well before their invention. Easy to forget that downtown streets were optimized for walking, riding #bikes and public #transit #Ottawa

No just wait it's going to look like this:

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