Cogswell interchange
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The Cogswell Interchange and the Ecology Action Centre celebrate 40 years
HALIFAX – Forty years after its inception, the Ecology Action Centre (EAC) is still fighting to make Nova Scotia an environmental success story. To...
By Jen Powley and Chloe Anderson -
Events Guide: The Fight that Saved Downtown Halifax
HALIFAX = To celebrate one of the Ecology Action Centre’s (EAC) first successful campaigns that stopped plans for a four lane highway plowing through...
By Crystal Melville -
Sharing Ideas to Transform Vacant Site into Urban Gardens… and more
HALIFAX – Once declared by Shakespeare, “What is the city but the people?” suggests he may have been as successful an urban planner as...
By Rachel Caroline Derrah -
Events guide: A chat with Andy Fillmore, HRM’s urban design chief
HALIFAX – Looking for a lunch date this Tuesday? Come chat with HRM’s urban design head honcho Andy Fillmore. This Dalhousie-Harvard educated...
By Jake Schabas -
[Re]Presenting Halifax #2: Against the Grain
This is the second installment in a series that revisits historical and contemporary maps, diagrams and other interpretive readings of the Halifax...
By Matt Neville -
Where are Halifax’s worst intersections?
HALIFAX – Bad intersections, every major city in the world has them. They confuse us with complicated traffic signals, make us late for work, and...
By Thom Bator -
A view worth saving?
HALIFAX – Halifax is deadlocked in yet another polarized development debate. Pro-heritage people oppose the proposed World Trade and Convention...
By Lizzy Hill -
Bridging the bike lane gap
HALIFAX – The historic streets of Halifax—the narrow downtown streets, the more-than-four-street intersections, the super steep streets—predate the...
By Brian Zurek