Community
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Reading the City: Defining Community
This is part of a series of posts by Dalhousie students in the Community Design course, ‘Reading the City,’ where students explore the local...
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[Re]Presenting Halifax #8: Public Lands as Connective Tissue or Cancer?
The [Re]Presenting Halifax series revisits historical and contemporary maps, diagrams and other interpretive readings of the Halifax region. See my first...
By Matt Neville -
Urban Gardening, Online
HALIFAX – Urban gardening is by no means a new concept in Halifax. In fact the first time I remember hearing about urban gardening was in 2005...
By Steve Bedard -
Events Guide: Neighbourhood Earth Schedule
HALIFAX – ‘Neighbourhood Earth‘ — an Ecology Action Centre initiative, delivering urban environmental education through the arts — is...
By Emma Feltes -
Events Guide: Community Meeting on Tenants Rights
DARTMOUTH – Do you know your rights as a tenant? Are you sure? This Thursday, the Tenants’ Alliance of Nova Scotia (TALONS) and the Dalhousie...
By Jessica Walker -
HRM by Re-Design: Meta Library, Part One — Urban Monument
A series that examines urban and architectural issues in Halifax by way of unbuilt proposals authored by different designers, this week featuring a...
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Events Guide: Newcomers and Residents Community Potluck
DARTMOUTH – All HRM newcomers and residents are invited to gather at this Saturday’s 5th Annual Community Potluck and Barbecue at...
By Emma Feltes -
Events Guide: Reel Downtown 2010
ST JOHN’S – If you have ever walked down Solomon’s Lane in St. John’s, past the illustrious Ship Pub, you would have seen a...
By Andrew Harvey -
Herring Cove Road hits a speedbump
HALIFAX – Over the past two months, a special road project has been working its way through City Council — a road project that would see our active...
By Steve Bedard -
Art, Ecology, Education in your North End Neighbourhood this Summer
Photo by Clara Stewart-Robertson & Jennifer Pritchard HALIFAX – “North End neighbours and all Haligonians alike – look out!”...
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Biking on the edge of a Rock: Cycling in St. John’s – Part 2
Anyone who has visited Newfoundland will tell you that it is the people that make Newfoundland as amazing as it is. When it comes to cycling in St...
By Andrew Harvey -
Events Guide: CITY REPAIR at Dalhousie School of Architecture
WHAT: Michael Cook of CITY REPAIR from Portland, Oregon will speak on the Magic of Placemaking: the Art of reclaiming urban spaces to create...
By Crystal Melville