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New Infill Action Plan Released
via City of Edmonton The post New Infill Action Plan Released appeared first on Spacing Edmonton.
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: June 23 – 28
YEGFOOD Downtown Edmonton’s Sobeys on 104 Street will close its doors on July 31 [Mastermaq] Sobeys closure a ‘minor hiccup’ for downtown revitalization [Edmonton Journal] A warm welcome to downtown’s...
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Charles Birnbaum Q&A: celebrating our landscapes
June is Parks and Recreation Month in Canada, and Spacing had chance to ask a few questions of landscape architect and The Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles Birnbaum, after his special...
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Old highways, new tricks
In countries like Canada, where the car is still king, highways and roads are perhaps the most ubiquitous form of infrastructure around. There are 900,000 kilometres of road in this country which,...
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Four wild but cheap ideas Edmonton can introduce – right now – to protect...
Cycling in downtown Edmonton is a bit like jogging with bulls. Each time you’re nearly crushed riding atop your velo, you wonder if it wouldn’t be smarter to join the herd and buy a car. Bike lanes...
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Book Review – Bing Thom Works
“As the author himself states, this is not the typical architect’s monograph. For the book, Bing Thom has selected a number of projects from the many works and proposals produced in his thirty-year...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: June 28 – July 6
CANADA DAY: NOW WITH MORE LED! Back Words: Oh Canada! [Foolscap Studio] Edmonton’s High Level Bridge has lights…now what? [Mastermaq] VIDEO: Light the Bridge [ATB via YouTube] URBAN DEVELOPMENT Major...
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SPACING: Come to our release party on July 15th!
WHAT: Release party for summer 2014 issue WHEN: Tuesday, July 15th, 7pm-12am WHERE: Centre for Social Innovation (Annex), 720 Bathurst St., ground floor COST: free! (mag costs $5) RSVP: Feel free to...
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BOOK REVIEW – The Guide to Greening Cities
Authors: Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, Steven S. Nicholas and Julia Parzen (Island Press, 2013) More and more books are focusing on how to effectively “green” our cities, or in other words, how to make them...
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Sustainability comes to Strathcona BIA
Most business improvement associations love a parade. A street festival draws foot traffic, window shoppers, and hungry patrons. But the Strathcona Business Improvement Area (SBIA), just east of...
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Accessible Signage for Edmonton Transit
Legible communication is something that Edmonton Transit (ETS) should strive for. To save the trouble for those having difficulty reading the blurry photo above, I will provide the text here: “Please...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: July 7 – 12
FOOD & AG Edmonton councillors approve urban bee pilot project [Metro] Garden centre flowers test positive for pesticide harmful to bees: study [Global] JULY 17: Help plant Edmonton’s first food...
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BOOK REVIEW – Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable,...
Authors: Nico Larco, Kristin Kelsey, and Amanda West (Island Press, 2014) Given multi-unit residential housing accounts for the vast majority of the work done by the firm I work for, I was eager to...
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Infrastructure and our way of life: lessons from the Atlanta BeltLine
Ryan Gravel, a senior urban designer with Perkins+Will who has helped to lead the design of the Atlanta BeltLine, spoke at an event hosted by the Centre for City Ecology and Toronto Park People this...
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Edmonton Today: Ash Fog
A haze from forest fires blankets over Edmonton on July 16, 2014. Overlooking the River Valley from Edmonton House. Before and After photos taken by Leia Astorga. The post Edmonton Today: Ash Fog...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: July 13 – 20
DOWNTOWN Take the Downtown Perception Survey and help drive the direction for its future improvement! [Downtown Business Association] Staples: Banning smoking at public square sends out an unfriendly...
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Visual Thoughts #42
Last VT image: The Dominion Building at sunset – Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator, independent researcher and designer...
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Five Short, Linear Stories on the LRT
This story was originally written for the Edmonton City as Museum Project (ECAMP) website launch. ECAMP, an initiative under the Edmonton Heritage Council, exists to tell the best stories Edmonton has...
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Book Review: Analysing Architecture (Fourth Edition)
Author: Simon Unwin (Routledge, 2014) At a time when increasing complexity seems to be the overriding direction in all fields, lucidly describing the fundamentals is becoming increasingly difficult....
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Urban Scavengers: Ottawa’s ‘Awesome Art Hunt’
If you happened to have been looking in some of Ottawa’s urban nooks and crannies as of late, you may have been surprised to have found a wooden canvas or two, painted by local artist and architecture...
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