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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 3d

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

Photo of faded supergraphic mural on the Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 4d

Finally building that monorail, I hope.

Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 8d

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

Photo of Avenue du Mont-Royal, Montreal on a weekday afternoon, full of people walking, no cars

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 8d

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

View of downtown Ottawa today with some cars but characteristically few people. Nobody wants to be here unless they're being paid.

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 8d

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

19th century downtown Ottawa, street scene with several people on bikes, two streetcars, and more people than you typically see walking on a downtown street today.

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 11d

Watson hated the NCC for "micromanaging" city projects. Those of us who work with the NCC in a professional capacity know this practice as "complying with quality standards." Not difficult if you share the committment to good design.

Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 11d

Could it be that regular people, unlike contracting officers, know instinctively that capital costs are dwarfed by operating costs over the life of a building?

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 11d

The NCC is effectively the municipal government as far as the quality of the public realm is concerned because it has a mandate to actually care about these things

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 11d

Ottawa seems to be governed as though the area a couple of square kms around City Hall is a kind of DMZ that suburban politicians grudgingly traverse by car and as quickly as possible.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25d

Jesus Christ.

A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons.

You can (and should) oppose political violence without doing all this, you know.

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 25d

That's nice. But I think what the people of Ottawa Centre are wondering is did you give Charlie Kirk a standing ovation today?

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

Rendering of Ottawa Hospital parking garage with green roof

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · May 30

Having served on the city's heritage committee for a while, i always found delegations opposing projects in Rockliffe to be the most entertaining.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Apr 7

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · Dec 30

Tokyo

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Ian Walker @fenlandgent.bsky.social · Dec 29

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Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · Dec 24

I made a gingerbread panopticon

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · Dec 22

It was disappointing to learn, after watching Conclave, that IRL the Cardinals' apartments in the Vatican were not actually designed by 1930s Marcello Piacentini on acid. #movies #architecture

Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · Dec 16

Ignore the hype about the hotdogs. They're just...hotdogs. Unless of course you really want a hotdog.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Dec 11

I called out the Conservative leader who lives in a 19-room mansion at Stornoway for being a sock puppet for Donald Trump.
Predatory and pusillanimous. Selling out our country to the likes of Donald Trump.
Not on my watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4bd...

Charlie Angus Calls Out Poilievre as Trump Puppet

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Dec 2

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · Dec 1

Our family spends orders of magnitude more on nice restaurant meals in Montreal than Ottawa. Just doesn't seem to occur to us here to go out in the evenings.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · Nov 20

The reviews are in. The professional associations representing Ontario’s engineers tinyurl.com/5n6tuxv5 urban planners tinyurl.com/ytj3xuc2 and traffic engineers tinyurl.com/276hzzxd have all come out opposed to Ontario’s proposed law to override local governments and rip out local bike lanes.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Nov 29

You don’t have to be a “cyclist” to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You don’t have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.

People riding in a safe bike-lane in downtown Vancouver

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Nov 30

Toronto showed up tonight and put Ford and his government on notice. This is just the beginning.

hope2hope.bsky.social @hope2hope.bsky.social · Nov 30

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