Urban Design

Events Guide: Building a Cycling Culture – Learning from the Netherlands

HALIFAX – Collectively, the Halifax Cycling Coalition, Planning & Design Centre, Dalhousie Office of Sustainability, Spring Garden Business...

Watch NFB: A Crack in the Pavement: Growing Dreams

Halifax YMCA’s Plan for the Future: Private Capital for Public Infrastructure

HALIFAX – The CBC and YMCA buildings occupy a prominent corner in Halifax – a stone’s throw from the bustling Spring Garden Road, the...

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...

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...

Events Guide: Public Information Session – YMCA/CBC Development

HALIFAX – On May 3, 2010, The Coasts’ Tim Bousquet wrote an article titled Proposed YMCA/CBC development will break HRM By Design height...

Atlantic Snapshots: Out with the Old

Halifax, Nova Scotia Photo by Dean Bouchard, member of Spacing Atlantic’s flickr pool.

Bayers Lake expansion approved behind closed doors

HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY – In early April, Halifax Regional Council approved a two hundred and fifty million dollar expansion to Bayers Lake...

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...

Atlantic Snapshots: Tis the Season… for Construction

Saint John, New Brunswick Photo by Gillian Barfoot, member of Spacing Atlantic’s flickr pool.

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...

Events Guide: UnCork Spring with Imagine Bloomfield

HALIFAX – Launch Spring 2011 with Imagine Bloomfield and a general celebration of renewal at Obladee Wine bar in downtown Halifax on Monday, March...