Urban Design
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Halifax needs a pedestrian scramble
HALIFAX – I’ve watched with joy as cities around the world have embraced pedestrian culture. From one side of the globe to the other, cities...
By Jake Schabas -
Events Guide: Going backwards/Moving forwards
HALIFAX – Tie your shoe laces, dig out your fluorescent track pants, strap on your reflectors and bring any other walking devices/favourites...
By Crystal Melville -
A new façade for Fenwick
HALIFAX – Plans revealed at a public consultation last night promise a landmark change in the Halifax landscape. Fenwick tower is getting all dolled...
By Emma Feltes -
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 -
Cultivating citizen creativity
Photo Credit: CLICK Productions HALIFAX – My bookshelf is a graveyard for ideas. Pages covered in visions for the future from some community...
By Rachel Caroline Derrah -
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 -
Breaking News: Draft Dartmouth Common Master Plan released for further public input
DARTMOUTH – Early last October, I attended the public consultation meeting for Dartmouth Common Master Plan proposals. Yesterday, HRM released the...
By Jake Schabas -
Losing a Landmark: Hollis & Morris
HALIFAX – On the southeast corner of Hollis Street and Morris Street, in the South End of Halifax, a historically-significant set of buildings...
By Katie McKay -
State of Disrepair: Documenting the demise of the public payphone
HALIFAX – It’s been almost a year since I first started thinking about payphones. Back then I spoke with an urban planner who was working on a...
By Jessica Walker -
Wetland street furniture design in Sackville
SACKVILLE, NB – On a recent trip to Sackville, Moncton-based Spacing photographer Blake Michel Morin spotted a few interesting examples of...
By Blake Michel Morin -
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