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World Wide Wednesday: Berlin Wall tribute
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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Events Guide: Planning for the Future with an ICSP
CHARLOTTETOWN – When the federal government introduced the Intergrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) as a requirement to access the Gas Tax...
By Joshua Biggley -
Beyond 4Days: Thackara’s thoughts, cardboard city, and “human energy”
HALIFAX – Whether or not you were able to attend October’s 4Days “unconference” in Halifax, there’s a second chance to feast...
By Emma Feltes -
Atlantic snapshots
Saint John, New Brunswick Jake Schabas An overpass built for…convicted pedestrians. The crime? Wanting to cross the highway on foot.
By The Photographers -
Tuesday’s headlines
CITY HALL DIEPPE – Dieppe eyes sign law [ Times & Transcript ] ST. JOHN’S – $1.5M operating grant approved for SJSE [ Telegram ...
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This week’s Spacing Radio features 4 Days conference
EDITOR’S NOTE: Some Spacing Atlantic readers may not be aware of this, but Spacing hosts a bi-weekly podcast called Spacing Radio (you can subscribe...
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Re-reading Marginal Road: alternative histories of the Halifax pier
HALIFAX – In 2007, Pier 21, the gateway to Canada for over a million people between 1928 and 1971, was publicly voted one of the Seven Wonders of...
By Hugh Pouliot -
Monday’s Headlines
Every weekday morning, Spacing will scan the local newspapers and media for articles to Atlantic cities. Put on the coffee, fix yourself a bowl of cereal...
By Rachel Caroline Derrah -
Atlantic snapshots
MacDonald Bridge, Halifax Jen Polegatto Bridged by fog.
By The Photographers -
Share a ride, make more friends
Co-written by Rachel Caroline Derrah and Anna Duckworth. NOVA SCOTIA – Consider this: you’ve got somewhere to be. But you’ve got no...
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From the Vaults: Sydney
Sydney was founded in 1785, and named after Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. From 1784 to 1820, Sydney was the capital of the British colony of Cape...
By Lauren Oostveen -
Atlantic snapshots
Saint John, New Brunswick Shawn Micallef Sun swept in Saint John.
By The Photographers
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered