Politics
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Responding to Town Square
HALIFAX – The process by which Rank Inc.’s new business super-complex, Nova Centre, was approved by HRM Council has lacked significant public input...
By Adria Young -
The Great Disconnect: Another Bike Lane to Nowhere?
HALIFAX – On September 19, 2011, traffic patterns in Downtown Halifax were altered in an attempt to ease congestion in the city’s core. In...
By Matt Neville -
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...
By Morgan Lanigan -
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...
By Katie Toth -
Saint John Airport takes on Plan SJ
SAINT JOHN – PlanSJ, Saint John’s community exercise to produce a new Municipal Plan, is coming under criticism from the region’s...
By David Drinnan -
Events Guide: “Culture Not Convention” photo exhibition launch Monday!
HALIFAX – This Monday will launch an exhibition of black and white photos dubbed “Culture Not Convention” to be featured at The Khyber...
By Emma Feltes -
Spacing Atlantic wants your photos!
Captivated by the landscape of Canada’s east coast cities? Obsessed with the beauty of a public space, the dirty grime of a back alley, a...
By Abad Khan -
Events Guide: Up for Review – Saint John’s Draft Municipal Plan
SAINT JOHN – In early 2010, the City launched PlanSJ to develop a new Municipal Plan to guide development over the next 25 years. We’ve been...
By Abad Khan -
Events Guide: Putting PlanSJ on Paper
SAINT JOHN – In early 2010, the City launched PlanSJ to create a new Growth Strategy and to develop a new Municipal Plan to guide development over...
By Abad Khan -
Value City – Planning?
HALIFAX – Ka-Ching. With a $13 billion dollar debt in NS (cleverly illustrated by Hugh Pouliot), how can we not talk about value? It is ironic...
By Crystal Melville -
A Greenbelt for Halifax?
HALIFAX – “What kind of community do you want to live in? What do you want Halifax to look like?” Jen Powley asked these questions to a packed...
By Natascia Lypny -
Planning for the (very) long run: Prof Bruce Tonn opens IMAGINE conference at Dalhousie
HALIFAX – Cities, as a rule, almost always outlive their founders, architects, and inhabitants. Despite millennia of transformation, London today...
By Hugh Pouliot