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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Trent Portigal

  • No Room on the Plaque: The Cecil Burgess Residence

    Edmonton’s built heritage only goes back to the late nineteenth century. This generally makes the interpretation of a building simple. There are only so...

  • Parking and Recreation

    School and park space in a new neighbourhood is typically acquired through the dedication of land. When a developer subdivides land, they generally...

  • The Plague of Street Numbering

    One of the significant challenges of the 1912 amalgamation of Strathcona and Edmonton was street naming. The two municipalities had incompatible yet...

  • Schools and Parks II – A History of Segregation

    The history of planning for schools and parks in Edmonton shows governments moving in an uncoordinated and contradictory way toward both collaboration and...

  • Schools and Parks I – A History of Sharing

    Developing schools and parks involves complex issues of land acquisition, ownership and mixing of uses. The history of provincial legislation and...

  • A Tramway to Somewhere

    The story of Edmonton’s rail transit begins in 1893, a year after the Town of Edmonton was incorporated. A paragraph is usually enough to mention the 1893...

  • A Pocket Park Paradise

    An article, entitled “City closer to changing downtown Edmonton parking lot, putting up paradise”, appeared in Metro News last year. It was related to the...

  • Selling Subdivisions to Francophones (Part 2)

    The period of 1905 to 1915 was an eventful time for Edmonton and, up until the 1912 annexation, Strathcona. The French language newspaper of the time, Le...

  • Selling Subdivisions to Francophones (Part 1)

    For a short time, about a century ago, Edmonton was the home to the only French language newspaper in western Canada. The paper, a weekly called Le...

  • A Partial History of A Roadway, Plan 524R

    An odd shaped lot, about twelve hundred square metres in size and located just north of 76 Avenue in Mill Creek Ravine South, was added to City of...