On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

This isn't an "authorized" follow-up yet. But...some of you might remember my article on the backstory of Eastway Gardens originally "Bannermount". If not:

http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2010/09/13/ottawas-alphabet-village/

There's a bit of a follow-up nine years onward. The people living there now might have their own hopes and plans, but it's going to get (more) complicated to act upon those plans judging by this report from CBC News Ottawa:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tremblay-road-eastway-garden-development-1.5188581

We're talking here about lands bordering on the cloverleaf interchange at Tremblay Road and St. Laurent Boulevard here. When I first moved to Ottawa back in 1985, they were used by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. I don't recall what that branch of the provincial government did there. Evidently, the land fell into federal hands in the decades since then. Sandwiched, so to speak between Avenue U and St. Laurent. Does it mean we finally get Avenues V, W and X added in? I don't know right now.

Something to keep an eye on.

This is what I was vaguely hinting at earlier in the week:

http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2016/07/09/street-names-proposing-intrepid-commemoration/

Street names photographed for the files:

• Telesat


• James Naismith (what there is of it)


• Presland


• Renouf


• Whitton


• Lola


• Hart


• Prince Albert


• Queen Mary


• King George


• Glynn


• Columbus


• Donald


• Père Charlebois


• Eve


• Beaudry


• Quill


• Vera


• Ontario


• Stevens


• Washington


• Carlotta


• McArthur


• Selkirk

Hoping to upload the pix within a week or so.

So I attended a lecture he gave at the National Gallery on Monday night. Recommending that you read Brynne Campbell's commentary on the event over at Spacing Ottawa.

More on other stuff later...

Following up on this comment...

I did say that I have a long list of places across Ottawa-Gatineau that I want to personally visit and explore on foot. Partly that's due to plain old curiosity, and partly it's due to this project I've taken on to document street names' histories via my irregular series of essays in Spacing Ottawa. (Thanks to anyone reading this who's been following that project over the years thus far, by the by!)

In the last couple of months, in between my other chores and quests for things like full-time steady employment, I've managed to knock off large chunks of a few neighhbourhoods on that list:

Manor Park
Southern Rockcliffe Park
Lindenlea
Tunney's Pasture
Westboro Beach
Riverside Park/Elmvale/Alta Vista
Lowertown East
Southern Glebe

It's not complete, and there's a long way to go. And a long way already travelled.

Hoping to learn much more along the way.

I asked this question earlier, partly as a prelude to this new Image of the Moment that just went live on Spacing Ottawa this morning.

Just went live this morning!

Go have a look!

If you're curious about how existing neighbourhoods are getting redeveloped, here's a little bit more about the process in Ottawa...

http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2014/06/05/image-moment-remapping-rideau-street/

This went live this morning:

http://spacing.ca/ottawa/2014/02/14/image-moment-transit-underpass-art/

Anyone want to take that title and make a song out of it?

If anyone's got recommendations re: Canadian coursework along similar lines, let me know.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-001j-introduction-to-urban-design-and-development-spring-2006

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-027-city-to-city-comparing-researching-and-writing-about-cities-spring-2006

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-204-planning-communications-and-digital-media-fall-2004/

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-302j-urban-design-politics-spring-2010