By Jason Pfeifer
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Breaking the Grid: Edmonton’s City Beautiful Plan
Until around the mid-twentieth century, almost all subdivision plans for Edmonton were conceived as a traditional grid of streets and avenues in cardinal...
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Two New Edmonton Interactive Building Age Maps
In the past 24 hours not one but two interesting online interactive maps have been published to explore the age of the city’s buildings. One of...
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The Edmonton Streetcar & Its Urban Form: Part 2
Some time ago now, I wrote Part 1 of The Edmonton Streetcar and its Urban Form. In it I identified that Edmonton’s favourite streets are largely...
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The Edmonton Streetcar and Its Urban Form: Part 1
Jasper Avenue, Whyte Avenue, 124th Street, Alberta Avenue, 95th Street, 97th Street, 109th Street. What do all of these streets share in common? The...
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The Scale of Two Cities
Edmonton and Manhattan It’s no secret that Edmonton has a reputation for low density development. There is a lot of contemporary debate surrounding...