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Transforming a Big Box Mall into a Walkable Urban Centre
Transforming a Big Box Mall into a Walkable Urban Centre
In 2020, Matt Pinder and his wife moved to South Keys, a suburb in the south end of Ottawa. They lived right across the street from a transit station, but getting there meant walking through a big box mall and its parking lot, then crossing a busy, fast road. Within nine months they bought a car. Matt is a transportation planner, and the experience left him wondering what it takes to build grassroots support for walkable places, beyond an official plan written by planners.
He started small. He wrote a blog post reimagining South Keys…
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