LOCAL HISTORY
- Local pilot becomes the last person to take off from Edmonton City Centre Airport After weather grounds special fly-by of CF-18s [Edmonton Examiner]
- Herzog on Heritage: A. Macdonald Building [Edmonton Heritage Council]
- Hooves in History: How the Horse Changed the West [Alberta's Historic Places]
- Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84th Ave, Edmonton, Alberta, 1910s and 2006 [Maybe Edmonton]
- Big Game in Deep Time: 10,000 years of Hunting in Alberta [Alberta's Historic Places]
GETTING AROUND
- Edmonton’s new NAIT LRT line won’t open on time [Metro News]
- City of Leduc opts out of Edmonton Transit Service bus agreement [Metro News]
- Ottawa: Building a Bike Culture in a City That Gets 88 Inches of Snow a Year [Atlantic Cities]
- Detroit: Invest in mass transit to retain young people, Michigan Municipal League says [Detroit News]
- America’s 10 Best Protected Bike Lanes of 2013 [People For Bikes]
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Staples: Arena’s lame name has no connection to Edmonton [Edmonton Journal]
- NorQuest College to receive $170 million from Government of Alberta for new building [Metro News]
- EIA, developer to build massive outlet mall near airport Developer of CrossIron Mills north of Calgary to build mall on airport land on QE II [CBC]
- ‘Revitalization’ as colonialism [Zoe and the City]
- Calgary: Developers group article suggests gays and ‘the guy with tattoos’ may not feel welcome in suburbs [Calgary Herald]
- Calgary: Urban Development Institute’s facts on segregating Calgary [Fast Forward Weekly]
- House Rules: Where you live is important. [This American Life]
URBAN DESIGN
- City of Edmonton celebrates winners of its Urban Design Awards [Canadian Architect]
- Winnipeg: Winners of Warming Huts Art + Architecture Competition announced [Canadian Architect]
- Vancouver: How Urban Design Influences How Many Friends You Have [Fast Co.Exist]
- Collaborative, Creative Placemaking: Good Public Art Depends on Good Public Spaces [Project for Public Spaces]
- What Your Street Grid Reveals About Your City [Atlantic Cities]
- Property Developers & City Councils Fail To Build Iconic Buildings [The Cool Hunger]
- Five Sustainable Building Materials that Could Transform Construction [This Big City]
EDMONTON CURIOSITIES
- It’s Official. Winter is Here. [Foolscap Studio]
- Have you checked out the neighbourhood symbols produced by Edmonton graphic designer Jaime Calayo? [wherewearefrom]
- Green onion cakes proposed as City of Edmonton’s official dish [Metro News]
- Recap: Edmonton’s first Chinatown Night Market & Old Town Tour – YEGventures [Youtube]
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