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- "We need to be both a city for people and a city for the world," writes Toon Dreessen.
- We need to understand the root causes and bring leadership to solving problems so that we become the city we aspire to be, writes Toon Dreessen.
- By limiting development on certain streets to four storeys, the city has virtually guaranteed that these lots will remain undeveloped, writes Toon Dreessen.
- Governments often design RFPs to demand unreasonably high thresholds for insurance coverage, years of experience or firm size that have little or no bearing on a firm’s ability to deliver the work.
- The city should encourage investment in our communities, writes Architects DCA president Toon Dreessen.
- What if we thought differently about our publicly-owned assets?
- How can cities help create the kind of community that supports small businesses? One way is with good public amenities.
- Area could be an incubator for testing how to support small businesses in a post-COVID economy, creating the walkable, sustainable community we all aspire to – but city's new vision falls short.
- Ottawa, like many cities, experiences cognitive dissonance. We need to rethink what we are doing, and how, if we are serious about being the most livable mid-sized city in North America.
- One of the keys to business growth is ensuring a steady supply of customers. What better way to do that than to build more housing close to them?
- Our current crisis is teaching us that social spaces within our increasingly dense urban places matter, writes Architects DCA president Toon Dreessen
- In Ottawa, lax bylaws fail to offer much incentive to property owners to redevelop or restore their empty and boarded-up buildings
- Architect Toon Dreessen breaks down the barriers to creating four and six-storey developments that integrate into existing communities
- When designing our next interprovincial crossing, we must think about how it will function and last for the next century, writes Ottawa architect Toon Dreessen
- More people living on less land means less sprawl. However, when poorly designed or located in inappropriate areas, infill development is often accused – with some justification – of degrading the…
- Every year or two, Ottawa residents are treated to a feat of modern engineering as construction crews replace an aging bridge spanning the Queensway over the course of a single weekend.
- Travel two hours northeast of Ottawa to Chalk River, and you’re likely to see the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) – a complex established after the Second World War to provide nuclear research…
- Procurement is the process used by large organizations such as governments to buy goods and services.
