URBAN DEVELOPMENT
- Simons: Financial woes halt construction of Ukrainian museum [Edmonton Journal]
- Strathcona home ordered torn down for being too tall [Edmonton Journal]
- Oversubscribed NAIT seeks $100 million to expand campus [Edmonton Journal]
- Blatchford: Connecting to NAIT’s future [Transforming Edmonton]
- Why Edmonton’s 104 Street Is Not a Retailer’s Dream [Alberta Venture]
- Speakers push for new west-end recreation centre at Edmonton budget talks [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson looking to fund library with CRL cash [Metro Edmonton]
- Northlands subcommittee turning to U.S. cities for the future of Rexall Place [Metro Edmonton]
- PHOTOS: Edmonton organizations ask city council for capital dollars [Edmonton Sun]
TRANSPORTATION
- Mouallem: The Edmonton car share that could [Metro Edmonton]
- Cyclists say proposed downtown Edmonton bike route plans are ‘promising’ [Metro Edmonton]
- Two designs offered for 83 Avenue bike route, Edmontonians share mixed reviews [Metro Edmonton]
- Oliver residents ask Edmonton councillors to do Jasper Avenue right or not at all [Metro Edmonton]
- Edmonton should plan to buy up to 250 electric buses, report recommends [Edmonton Journal]
- Staples: Traffic jams the new normal for booming Edmonton [Edmonton Journal]
YEG HISTORY
- Herzog: Tracks Into the Past [Edmonton City As Museum Project]
- Photo Archive: Images of Prairie Towns [Prairietowns.com]
- VIDEO: 1915 Edmonton Flood Documentary [City of Edmonton]
- City looking at replicating some of Edmonton’s historic neon signs for museum [Metro Edmonton]
ART AND CULTURE
- Multiple public art calls released for Rogers Arena and Light the Bridge [Edmonton Arts Council]
- Edmonton’s inaugural Nuit Blanche event might need to scale back without city funding [Metro Edmonton]
OTHER LOCAL NEWS
- New publication “The Yards” focuses on hyper-local news for Edmonton’s core communities [Metro Edmonton]
- Mayor Iveson on Budget 2015, Council’s 2%, City Charter, and more [Mastermaq]
- Iveson: Borrowing to Build [Doniveson.ca]
- Old remand centre gym becomes overflow shelter for Edmonton homeless [Edmonton Journal]
- Harding: Edmonton is great at making plans, not-so-great at executing them [Metro News]
- Edmonton should consider Internet voting in 2017, councillor says [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton region must take steps to secure economic future, report says [Edmonton Journal]
MISCELLANY
- How one commercial real estate developer is transforming downtown Calgary one building at a time [Alberta Venture]
- Motorists must take more responsibility for road safety [Vancouver Courier]
- Toronto to narrow traffic lanes in hopes of increasing safety [Globe and Mail]
- Kent: What Makes a Public Space Great? [Project for Public Spaces]
- Gated Communities Lock Cities Into Cycles of Inequality [Sustainable Cities Collective]
- Our transit future in peril: How idealism is threatening to derail vital projects [Salon]
- Designs on Health: New research advances the alignment of design and public health [Architect Magazine]
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