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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: Sept 22 – 28
DEVELOPMENT Edmonton councilllors OK plans for former Whyte Avenue gas station site [Edmonton Journal] City christens new downtown park after Canada’s first Aboriginal police officer Alex Decoteau...
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Book Review – Farming Cuba: Urban Agriculture from the Ground Up
Author: Carey Clouse (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) In light of growing urban populations and diminishing resources, the issues around food security and the importance of urban agriculture have...
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Creating citizen spaces through Indigenous soundscapes
As a little girl, my Dad used to take my little sister and I for long walks in the river valley that winds through Amiskwacî (the nêhiyawêwin [Plains Cree] name for the Beaver Hills, which the city of...
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EVENT Oct 9: Chasing Net Zero Panel Event
Excerpt from http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/netzero. Check out the videos posted below! Join the folks interviewed in the Green Energy Futures’ Chasing Net Zero series for a dynamic panel event, and...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: Sept 29 – Oct 5
URBAN DEVELOPMENT Parking lots. Or parking less in downtown Edmonton? [Edmonton Journal] Lamphier: Hendrix highrise groundbreaking an example of Edmonton’s hot real estate market [Edmonton Journal]...
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This Is Edmonton: West Edmonton Mall
For a building of relatively few storeys, West Edmonton Mall has cast a surprisingly long shadow over the city. It has often been argued that West Ed was responsible for sucking all the air out of...
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Book Review – Why I Walk: Taking A Step in the Right Direction
Author: Kevin Klinkenberg (New Society Publishers) Ever since I read Jeff Speck’s Walkable City, I’ve noticed just how many books on walking there are. It’s that state of awareness similar to when...
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Moving Millennials: how a generation is changing mobility
In the past decade, a term has been tossed around to describe a generation who began coming of age in the early 2000s. Called the “Millennials”, this group is comprised of those born between 1981 and...
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Opinion: Entrance sign debate needs refocus
Fueled by a manic combination of civic pride and shame, Edmonton Council is reopening discussions on the look of the city’s entrance signs. Although the sign and slogan may be underwhelming, I believe...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: Oct 6 – Oct 12
DEVELOPMENT Delta hotel announced for Edmonton’s arena district [Edmonton Journal] Road sale in Edmonton arena district completed [Metro News] New West Edmonton Mall wing next to water park [Edmonton...
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VIDEO: Downtown is for people! (Isn’t it?)
Edmonton has been making great strides in downtown lately. The Arena District has been stealing many of the headlines, but it is just one of many exciting projects contributing to huge changes in the...
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Book Review – The Public Library: A Photographic Essay
Author: Robert Dawson (Photographer) with Bill Moyers (Foreword)and Ann Patchett (Afterword) – (Princeton Architectural Press, 2014) It is rare to find a book where the first sentence powerfully sets...
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Moving Millennials: the future of mobility in the dispersed city
As I wrote in Part One of this series, Millennials are currently playing a significant role in how cities adapt to moving large numbers of citizens efficiently. Urban and transit planners are working...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: October 13 – 19
DOWNTOWN Whose space is it anyway? As downtown development ramps up around the arena, questions of the core’s new identity emerge [VUE Weekly] Restaurateurs making it on 104th Street: Downtown’s...
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Moving beyond #OpenArtYEG
David Rauch is a machine. He has been in Edmonton for less than a year and he has already deployed a number of pianos throughout the downtown core and engaged with Edmonton’s Open Data community...
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Why cycling advocacy matters, and how you can help
Most cities in North America are making some effort to fit bikes in, but given the huge interest in transportation cycling, and the mobility needs of increasingly large populations, they’re not doing...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: October 20 – 26
CITY POLITICS It’s time to re-examine the scope of municipal powers [Globe and Mail] Iveson reflects on his first year as Edmonton mayor [Don Iveson] Mayor Don Iveson slowly working through campaign...
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Aquaponics: urban growers gaining ground
A generator resting on wood planks sits shut off in a corner and large metal racks line otherwise bare walls at Aqua Greens’ warehouse during a recent visit. Yet in just a couple months’ time,...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: October 27 – November 2
URBAN DEVELOPMENT Lamphier: Edgewater Village injects new life on Jasper East [Edmonton Journal] Changes coming for eyesores at west-end Edmonton intersection [Edmonton Journal] City of Edmonton would...
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Reclaiming Spaces/Places: Restoring Indigenous street names in Toronto
Reclaiming Spaces/Places is an ongoing series written by Lacey McRae Williams that shares stories of Indigenous resurgence through public art and planning across Canada, Turtle Island (North America)....
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