Urban Design
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Rad wins Mayor’s Award in Excellence and Innovation
HALIFAX – For the 3rd annual Mayor’s Award for Excellence & Innovation in Planning competition, eligible post-secondary students living in the...
By Hugh Pouliot -
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 -
Events Guide: Holy Well Excursions
HALIFAX – Join artist, Aimee Brown this Sunday, March 13 at 2:00 pm for the first of three performative excursions; these excursions will celebrate...
By Crystal Melville -
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 -
Events Guide: PechaKucha Night #7
I like it here. So why is my neighborhood and thousands more like it, so often ignored by architects and architecture schools? The very environment where...
By Crystal Melville -
Events Guide: Public Session, Capital Health Urban Farm project
HALIFAX – Once Queen Elizabeth High School is demolished, the land is to be used in the interim as an urban farm – a novel use of the land for...
By Abad Khan -
Events Guide: Imagine
HALIFAX – In 2005, Halifax’s north end collective consciousness came together to sprout Imagine Bloomfield in an effort to renew and preserve...
By Crystal Melville -
Lead a Jane’s Walk!
ALL OVER – “Jane’s Walk is the street-level celebration of Jane Jacobs’ legacy that combines the simple act of walking with personal...
By Emma Feltes -
Event Guide: Eastern Gateway Waterfront Presentation
CHARLOTTETOWN – The Charlottetown Area Development Corporation is ready to reveal the Eastern Gateway Master Plan that will (we hope) transform the...
By Joshua Biggley -
Our urban environment is over-fenced
This article by Erin O’Connell was originally published on Spacing Ottawa Do good fences really make good neighbours? We’re into the depths of...
By Spacing -
Events Guide: Gothic Revival Walk, The Gatekeeper’s Lodge
HALIFAX – “In one of my first posts, I mentioned the Gatekeeper’s Lodge was a fine example of Victorian-Gothic architecture –...
By Crystal Melville -
Events Guide: Vision Pavilion – Workshop #1
DARTMOUTH – Discover Dartmouth with trusted Narratives in Space + Time (NiS+T) collective, as they take teens and adults out for a wandering tour of...
By Crystal Melville