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Visual Thoughts #44
Last VT image: A fragment of the Manhattan skyline viewed from near Peter Detmold Park, New York. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator,...
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Exploring the Athens Metro
I recently visited the Athens metro. Athens expanded its metro dramatically for the 2004 Olympic Games, especially in the central city. The new system incorporated an existing 1896 line, which gives...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: Aug 18 – 24
YEGFOOD Urban farm wins over Garneau neighbours after rocky start [CBC] Alberta Open Farm Days offers city slickers a chance to see where their food comes from [Edmonton Journal] Food truck alley...
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Papaschase: “Big Woodpecker”
To relocate the Métis-Cree away from Fort Edmonton and the highly-valued North Saskatchewan River, negotiations were made to create the Papaschase Indian Reserve in 1877. Band members died of...
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Mobile libraries adapt with changing communities
The dwindling availability of brick-and-mortar book stores, in the age of Amazon and evolving technologies, raises the question of what role libraries will play in the future of our communities. The...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: July 28 – Aug 3
YEG CULTURE Edmonton’s Top 10 Neighbourhoods for 2014 [Avenue Edmonton] Little parklet memorial brings international activism to Edmonton [Edmonton Journal] Simons: Heritage Festival offers the best of...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: August 25 – 31
ARENA DISTRICT Katz unveils new details of Edmonton Arena District mega-project [Edmonton Journal] New downtown Edmonton’s Stantec building will be among largest in Western Canada [Metro Edmonton]...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: July 28 – Aug 3
YEG CULTURE Edmonton’s Top 10 Neighbourhoods for 2014 [Avenue Edmonton] Little parklet memorial brings international activism to Edmonton [Edmonton Journal] Simons: Heritage Festival offers the best of...
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Adding a bike to your urban mobility tool kit
Unlike some of the best-established cycling cities, North American transportation cycling culture is still growing and maturing — every year we have more eager, and often nervous, new riders with...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: Sept 1 – 7
CITY POLITICS Interesting analysis on Edmonton’s City Councillors based on how they vote [City Blocs] Edmonton overdue for ‘grown-up conversation’ with province, Mayor Iveson says [Edmonton Journal]...
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Book Review – State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability
Author: The Worldwatch Institute (Island Press, 2014) Books created by The WorldWatch Institute are always very intriguing. They balance on a very fine line between being excessively factual and...
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Vision Realized: Isaak Kornelsen Memorial Parklet
Just over one year after Jonathan Behnke developed a vision for a parklet to memorialize former classmate, Isaak Kornelsen, his vision is becoming a reality. Isaak was a University of Alberta student...
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Pop-Up City Hall: Exploring New Ways to Engage
In October 2012, Vancouver City Council approved forming a Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force to give recommendations on how to increase Vancouverites’ sense of belonging and inclusion, deepen their...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: Sept 7 – 14
DOWNTOWN & INFILL Staples: It’s a new day for Edmonton’s downtown [Edmonton Journal] Two hotels slated for downtown Edmonton ‘long overdue’ [Edmonton Journal] Dreams of a thriving new downtown...
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Book Review: Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never...
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EVENT September 19: PARK(ing) Day
Spacing Edmonton is collaborating with the City of Edmonton in an intervention for PARK(ing) Day hosted by the Drawing Room. Come join us this Friday for our urbanist tea party and much more! For more...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: Sept 15 – 21
DOWNTOWN & INFILL Mouallem: Two revitalizations emerge in Edmonton’s Quarters, but can they coexist? [Metro Edmonton] 104th Avenue project needs more land: consultant [Edmonton Journal] Infill in...
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Book Review: Urban Acupuncture
Author: Jaime Lerner (Island Press, 2014) Jaime Lerner is a living legend among urbanists. Often mentioned in the same breath is Jane Jacobs and William Whyte, Lerner is an architect, urban planner,...
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The Edmonton Streetcar & Its Urban Form: Part 2
Some time ago now, I wrote Part 1 of The Edmonton Streetcar and its Urban Form. In it I identified that Edmonton’s favourite streets are largely historic streetcar routes – anchoring our favourite...
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This Is Edmonton: River Valley Colours
The North Saskatchewan River Valley is unquestionably Edmonton’s gem, hidden in plain sight. For those of us who live on one side of the river and work or go to school on the other, we see it every...
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