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Design Thinking and the City: Dignity Lies in the Details
Last winter I had an experience that changed the way I saw urban design. It was mid-February. It was one of those days that was so cold that the city seemed to be blanketed in a mist of ice. Certainly...
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How to have better conversations about Paris
This article was co-written with Beyhan Farhadi Immediately following the Paris attacks a deep divide emerged. On one side, there were messages of solidarity, hashtag mobilization, and temporary...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: November 16 – 22
URBAN DEVELOPMENT Edmonton’s Architecture: Shape of things to come [Globe and Mail] Edmonton’s Ice District development spurring new real estate projects [Globe and Mail] Downtown revitalization then...
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Imagining Edmonton’s Main Street
Jasper Avenue is said to be Edmonton’s main street. But what does that mean? Its multiple uses–as destination and as thoroughfare, as pedestrian street, as transit street, as automobile corridor–leave...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: November 23 – 29
TRANSPORT Consortium, including Bombardier, to build Edmonton’s $1.8-billion Valley Line LRT [Edmonton Journal] Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson not worried about betting on Bombardier [Metro News] Edmonton...
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Book Review – 100 Diagrams That Changed the World
It all begins with a diagram. In architecture, it is the grand design of the floor plan; in mathematics, it is the graphic representation of an algebraic or geometric relationship; in physics,...
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This is Harbin: Edmonton Road
As pointed out in a previous article by Erik Backstrom, our sister city in China has their very own Edmonton Road (埃德蒙顿路 or Āidéméngdùn lù). It is a major arterial that connects two major ring roads...
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What ETS riders need from a transit strategy: Part 2
Following the first part of this series, the second round of the transit strategy public meetings took place on November 17th and 18th. The purpose of these meetings was to have participants prioritize...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: November 30 – December 6
BUDGET Edmonton mayor announces 3.4% property tax increase [CBC] Edmonton budget highlights: Coyotes, breweries, Rossdale [Metro News] Surprise funding boost joins painful cuts as councillors fine-tune...
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Book Review – The Disaster Profiteers
Author: John C. Mutter (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer is an analysis of what makes a natural disaster a...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: December 7 – 13
DEVELOPMENT Edmonton real estate market headed for 2016 correction: Experts [Metro News] Second phase of Edmonton’s Blatchford cleanup comes in well under budget [Edmonton Journal] Well-to-do Edmonton...
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Jasper Avenue still a Player in Downtown Revival
Is it all really doom and gloom? Last week an Edmonton Journal editorial painted a rather bleak picture for Jasper Avenue and what it means for downtown during an economic downturn. The article focuses...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: December 14 – 20
TRANSPORT Some new Edmonton EPark pay machines inaccessible [Metro News] Approval logjam-break enabled Pride crosswalks [City of Edmonton] Behind the scenes: How Edmonton Transit is using smart buses...
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Proceed with caution on federal infrastructure plans
During the federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised major funding for infrastructure projects. There is no question that such projects are sorely needed. But how exactly will our billions be...
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Book Review: Ladders (2nd edition)
Author: Albert Pope (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) “The contemporary city, the city that is at this moment under construction, is invisible.” So begins the journey into Albert Pope’s recently...
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Event: Re-Imagining the city – The (im)possibility of Design forum, March 10/11
Exactly forty years ago, Vancouver hosted the first UN Habitat Conference. In 1976, cities were struggling to survive, global warming was only feared by a tiny few, and the global rural to urban...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: Winter Break
We hope you had a Happy New Year! Here’s a small collection of headlines you may have missed during the break: Need for social housing in Alberta triples in past year [Edmonton Journal] Freezeway an...
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Book Review: House Shumiatcher
Written by Leslie Van Duzer, UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series – 2015 This is the story of a house, designed by hatmaker-turned-architect Judah Shumiatcher, built for his family in 1975, and...
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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – Abstract...
This is a reminder you have until January 15, 2016 to submit an abstract to this exciting international symposium titled Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: January 4 – 10
TRANSPORT ICYMI: Tristin Hopper writes a scathing article about the Metro Line [Edmonton Journal] … and here is Mack Male’s piece in response: LRT is about more than speed [Mastermaq] David Staples:...
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