on the livability of inner residential areas. It is the necessary evil of modern times. It pollutes, it is ugly, dangerous, life threatening, and expensive both personally and communally. These facts are not generally understood. For example, in 1974 when the people of the Glebe were asked whether they wanted a traffic calming scheme put in their area, nearly half the people voted against it. When it was suggested that streets should be landscaped, communal places for everyone to enjoy, many were of the opinion that streets were only for cars. These opinions were exacerbated by the facts of the straight and unnecessarily wide road allowances of the late nineteenth century surveyors whose primary thoughts were to provide for the new car. Fortunately mayors Charlotte Whitton and Marion Dewar and Douglas Fullerton, Chairman of the National Capital Commission in the early 1970?s saw otherwise, enthusiastically putting their support behind traffic calming schemes throughout the region. Douglas Fullerton also was responsible for the cancellation of the building of further parkways and instead supporting the construction of bicycle tracks and footpaths. The architecture of the Glebe is as eclectic and varied as its population. While we do not have any palaces, temples or national shrines, we do have a lot of architecture that in a singularly Canadian fashion is derived from New England, old England, the Mid West, and California. The many little framed houses that cluster together on the older eastern side are typical of smaller Ontario and Quebec towns of