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Hipsters Are Changing Our World
CHARLOTTETOWN – Like them or not, Hipsters are changing North America. The Maritimes has seen glimpses of this fad but nothing like what is...
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World Wide Wednesday: Shovel ready, transit garden, museum advocacy
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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Main Street and the Department of Cars
SAINT JOHN – We are now a few months into the City of Saint John’s experiment with bike lanes on Main Street in the city’s North End and, from all...
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Atlantic Canada’s Densest Neighbourhoods – Saint John
EDITOR’S NOTE: Based on feedback from an earlier post on urban density, Spacing Atlantic will feature one of the top five dense residential...
By Sean Gillis -
Spacing Saturday: Toronto Portlands, Quartier des Spectacles and Collecting Scraps
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Gordon...
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HRM Council take heed – Bayers Road expansion criticized
HALIFAX – “In HRM, we have a traffic problem. We need to get people out of their cars,” one HRM resident succinctly surmised at the public meeting...
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Park(ing) Day!
Today, Friday, September 16th, is PARK(ing) Day! In cities around the globe, artists, activists and citizens will transform metered parking spaces into...
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Is the city a sketchbook? JJ Steeves tackles our ideas about graffiti
HALIFAX – Councillor Linda Mosher’s recent comparison of street art to vandalism and graffiti has brought a variety of reactions. One of the most...
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Events Guide: Public meeting on proposed Bayers Road expansion
Editor’s Note: From the desk of District 14 Councillor Jennifer Watts. Read her op-ed piece in the Chronicle-Herald here. WHAT: Bayers Road Widening...
By Abad Khan -
World Wide Wednesday: Safe Cities, LA Bike Lanes, Park(ing) Day
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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Transit can be a more moving experience than road widening
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is kindly cross-posted from the Halifax Media Co-op. Check out the original here. Also, Spacing Atlantic has created a...
By Jim Guild -
Atlantic Canada’s Densest Neighbourhoods – St. John’s
EDITOR’S NOTE: Based on feedback from an earlier post on urban density, Spacing Atlantic will feature one of the top five dense residential...
By Sean Gillis
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered