TRANSPORT
- Edmonton city staff hand back national award as bike lanes removed [Edmonton Journal]
- Why don’t more women cycle to work? It’s less about helmet hair, more about danger and sexual harassment [Metro News]
- Bridge girders over Groat Road weren’t properly braced: City of Edmonton [Global News]
- Via Rail and Greyhound may team up with shared Edmonton depot [Edmonton Journal]
- Air China Cargo to use Edmonton airport [Metro News]
- Calgary’s Airport Tunnel vs. Cycle Track Network: Bang for infrastructure bucks [Metro News]
- Federal contribution to Edmonton’s Valley Line LRT thus far: $400M (22% of the cost of Phase I). Federal Tories announce $1.5B for Calgary’s Green Line LRT project [Calgary Herald]
DEVELOPMENT
- Edmonton breaks building permit records with booming construction [Metro News]
- Simons: Emerging Royal Alberta Museum will redefine our city and our story [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton’s arbitrarily named ‘Design District’ ignores the neighbourhood’s obvious African connection [Metro News]
- Downtown airport closure gives rise to Edmonton’s changing skyline [Edmonton Journal]
- Do Taller Buildings Have to Mean Darker Streets? [Next City]
SUSTAINABILITY
- The nitty-gritty on Edmonton’s city street sand recycling process that saves more than just money [Edmonton Journal]
- Staples: Let’s preserve a massive untamed area in our river valley [Edmonton Journal]
- Forester fears for Edmonton’s boulevard trees [Edmonton Journal]
- Preparing cities for a changing climate – before it’s too late [Globe and Mail]
- ‘Bee hotels’ give solitary pollinators rooms of their own [Edmonton Journal]
LOCAL NEWS
- City Hall Express is coming to a neighbourhood near you [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton leads the way creating a safe place for trans homeless youth [Metro News]
- Burrow Cafe facing safety problems in Central LRT station [CBC]
- Mother’s Market, the market has decided to close for the present time – focusing on visual identity and space alterations [Mother’s Market]
- Staples: The joy of swimming down the North Saskatchewan River [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton: Canada’s magpie capital [CBC]
- In Edmonton, female firefighters still rare despite recruitment [Metro News]
MISCELLANY
- Call for Submissions! noticing: a zine series about spaces in amiskwaciwaskahikan (Edmonton)
- Highlights from the 2015 Growth Monitoring Report [Mack Male]
- Melbourne’s famous green and yellow W-class trams left to rust [Herald Sun]
- Landscape architecture comes to the fore in Chicago [Chicago Tribune]
- Convert grain elevators into people spaces, architecture grad says [CBC]
- Some great articles on the essentials of Modernist and Postmodernist architecture [ArchDaily]