STATE OF THE CITY, STATE OF THE PROVINCE
- Speech from the throne: Premier wants to repair relations with Alberta’s big cities [Edmonton Journal]
- Alberta budget to include “firm, long-term” transit funding commitment: sources [Metro Edmonton]
- Mayor Iveson’s State of the City speech calls on Premier Redford to provide LRT funding (with video) [Edmonton Journal]
- Simons: Iveson’s Clark Kent speech safe and thoughtful, but fails to inspire [Edmonton Journal]
- Staples: Supposed good news budget fails to put Edmonton’s LRT on track [Edmonton Journal]
- Despite budget, province seems willing to support LRT project: Iveson [Global Edmonton]
- Simons: Province’s Future Fund just mad money or crazy idea? [Edmonton Journal]
TRANSPORTATION
- Edmonton LRT ridership hit record high in 2013, report shows [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton’s LRT cash conundrum [Edmonton Sun]
- Simons: Making tracks: LRT first stop on the line to high-speed rail [Edmonton Journal]
- Cyclists unhappy with sidewalk closures for Light the Bridge installation work [Edmonton Journal]
- City looking at parking problems in core Edmonton neighbourhoods [Metro News]
- City might look at widening congested 75th Street [Edmonton Journal]
MEMORY AND IDENTITY
- The story of Edmonton: The City as Museum Project wants your Edmonton stories – potholes and all [VUE Weekly]
- March 4, 1978: Jasper Avenue one big drag [Edmonton Journal]
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mouallem: Can Edmonton sustain five or more new downtown performance venues? [Metro News]
- Mack Male: Want to solve the space problem for the arts in Edmonton? Stop shaving that yak! [mastermaq.ca]
- Light the Bridge project earns $2.5 million fundraising goal [Metro Edmonton]
- Downtown art gallery closes its doors [ISBE Edmonton]
- MSE: Green Window City Project [Make Something Edmonton]
OTHER LOCAL
- Launch of IDEA(s) 1.0 [Infill Development Edmonton Association]
- Simons: Alberta must learn from Iceland’s marketing moxy [Edmonton Journal]
- World Wildlife Fund lauds Edmonton for its ‘Way We Green’ plan [Edmonton Journal]
- Sad Don Iveson, Edmonton mayor, becomes awesome meme [Huffington Post Canada]
- EVENT: Pedcrawl! Try not to get lost in the Edmonton pedway system on March 14 [Edmonton Wayfinding Project/Harcourt House]
- City of Edmonton Google Maps gallery! [Google/City of Edmonton]
MISCELLANY
- Growing an urban neighbourhood, one store at a time [National Public Radio]
- Why urban history matters [Sustainable Cities Collective]
- Why Sweden has so few road deaths [The Economist]
- 12 ways to make cities more child-friendly [Spacing National]
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