SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
- Despite Premier Redford’s response, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson remains optimistic LRT funds are coming [Metro News]
- Staples: Redford off track on LRT expansion [Edmonton Journal]
- EXHIBITION: Edmonton Wayfinding Project, Jan 23 – Feb 28 2014 [Harcourt House]
- Downtown Calgary cycling spikes since track installed [CBC News]
- The biggest bicycling infrastructure achievement in North America that you’ve never heard about. Could Edmonton do this? [Tree Hugger]
HERITAGE
- The Edmonton Historical Board: Then and Now [City of Edmonton]
- Hecla Block By Lawrence Herzog [Edmonton Heritage Council]
- Creating a Future for Alberta’s Historic Main Streets [Government of Alberta]
- To make way for student housing, historic Garneau homes to be moved by truck, or wrecking ball [Edmonton Journal]
DEVELOPMENT
- Skinny homes the latest big idea in housing (with video) [Edmonton Journal]
- Simons: Crazy like a Fox: Developer makes his mark in downtown Edmonton [Edmonton Journal]
- Apartment building boom in Edmonton area will add 5,000 rental units [Edmonton Journal]
- EVENT: Jan 22: Net Zero Building Design – Finding the Sweet Spot [Solar Alberta]
- Homes in walkable locations are worth 51% more than houses in car-dependent areas [Active Living Research]
- Aging Boomers to Boost Demand for Apartments, Condos and Townhouses [Wall Street Journal]
ARTS & CULUTRE
- Should we warm up Edmonton’s statues? [Edmonton Journal]
- Check out this video the Urban Forest Department artist residency and its impact on City staff [City of Edmonton]
- Four more Oliver Little Free Libraries have a home! [Twitter @AnnaliseAK]
- Queer arts got the Exposure they needed to thrive in Edmonton [Metro News]
- Edmonton warms up to winter festivals [The Local Good]
- Urban Events: Dark Days, Bright City Lights [Sustainable Cities Collective]
- Something for Edmonton too? 100 in 1 Day, in which ideas range from practical to pie-in-the-sky, is coming to Toronto. What should we expect? [Toronto Star]
ENVIRONMENT
- Alberta leads landscape disruption: study [Metro News]
- Edmonton Urban Farm expanding a patch at a time [Metro News]
- Pressure on Alberta to phase out coal-fired power plants sooner than planned [Edmonton Journal]
- Why to Run in Parks When You’re in a City [Runners World]
- Do natural landscapes reduce future discounting in humans? [Royal Society Publishing]
MICELLANY
- Simons: With amalgamation push, Chamber of Commerce throws down the gauntlet [Edmonton Journal]
- Ridiculous headline of the week: Lasers, hot tubs, evergreens would enhance city: former mayor Thompson [Winnipeg Free Press]
- Opinion: architects “might have to learn from communications agencies, advertising and design” in order to regain social significance [Dezeen]
- New fences, distress phones options for preventing High Level Bridge suicides, report says [Edmonton Journal]
- The Decline of the Family-Friendly City [Atlantic Cities]
- New Suburbanism: Reinventing Inner-Ring Suburbs [Urban Land]
- Supermarkets could play a vital role in strengthening communities [The Guardian]
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