Urban Design
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Events Guide: Eastern Gateway Waterfront Master Plan Open House
CHARLOTTETOWN – Toronto-based firm Urban Strategies has teamed up with the Charlottetown Area Development Corporation and the City of Charlottetown...
By Veronica Simmonds -
The convention centre chronicles: the $100 million question
HALIFAX – It has been close to three weeks since Infrastructure Minister Bill Estabrooks hinted that the Province’s decision on whether to...
By Emma Feltes -
High-rise confusion on Barrington
HALIFAX – Last week HRM Council appeared to approve two high-rise developments on Barrington Street – a 17 storey building on the site of the Roy...
By Sean Gillis -
[Re]Presenting Halifax #7: Tissue Samples
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 -
Market Value
An abridged version of this article appeared in Spacing Magazine’s 18th issue, ‘Oh, The Spectacle‘. HALIFAX – The relationship...
By Emma Feltes -
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...
By Dustin Valen -
briColage: your city in one photo
Open invitation! Spacing Atlantic wants to read your city, neighbourhood, block, street, breakfast corner – niche – in photographic form. Old...
By Hugh Pouliot -
Peel Plaza blues
SAINT JOHN – Last Wednesday evening will prove to be a watershed for uptown development. Common Council voted 8-3 to award a $ 20.6-million tender...
By Abad Khan -
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 -
Herring Cove Road Redesign
HALIFAX – Something brilliant might be coming to the Spryfield area this summer. City staff have been working diligently on a new street design...
By Steve Bedard -
Tell a Better Downtown Story
HALIFAX – The Downtown Halifax Business Commission (DHBC) recently launched a promotional campaign to “tell a better story” about your...
By Rachel Caroline Derrah