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Sunday, May 13, 2007
Ottawa, the city of, um...
Andrew Cohen - A city that has given up (book excerpt) - Ottawa Citizen - May 9, 2007 In Ottawa's defense, almost every city everywhere forgot how to build livably after the 2nd world war. The only thing that saves the great cities of the world is that their downtowns are mostly pre-WWII, or even pre-car. Take a trip through the suburbs of Paris or visit any city's late-1960's era "improvements" and you will see spectacularly ugly cr*p regardless of nation. Ottawa just has the misfortune that the federal government and developers started putting up new major downtown buildings just at the time that architects and city planners had become enamoured of brutal, inhuman, ugly, car-centric urban "design". Labels: ottawa HOME - |