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LUSTY YOUNG GIANT: A Biography of Downtown
Originally published in the winter 2014 issue of The Yards. Written by Omar Mouallem. Shortly after the CN Tower was completed in 1966, the City of...
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Nîkânîw: Edmonton’s Aboriginal Youth Leadership Program
I would like to extend a personal thanks to the Aboriginal Elders, program leaders, youth participants, and all others who have been or are currently...
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Moving beyond #OpenArtYEG
David Rauch is a machine. He has been in Edmonton for less than a year and he has already deployed a number of pianos throughout the downtown core and...
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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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City and Campus
Academic institutions have an interesting relationship with cities. While campuses across the country strive to develop a nurturing bastion from external...
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Vision Realized: Isaak Kornelsen Memorial Parklet
Just over one year after Jonathan Behnke developed a vision for a parklet to memorialize former classmate, Isaak Kornelsen, his vision is becoming a...
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The Paramount Importance of Spring Cleaning
Spring is here at last! The season of rebirth, renewal, and… demolition? Yes. It seems that, here in Edmonton, spring has not truly arrived unless...
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Lake Sturgeon, Nemêw, Buffalo of the Water
Editor’s note (Dec 17, 2016): Research undertaken in 2015 and 2016 suggests that the word “Namew” lacks strong connection with local...
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Towers of Babel
Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds Author: Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac (Perseus Books 2012) Can’t we all just get along? Well...
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Edmonton’s Lost Chinese Market Gardens
If you visit the City of Edmonton Archives, a search for “market gardens” in the Henderson’s City Directory for 1932, turns up several Chinese names at...
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What’s in a City Flag?
A group of local creatives (progress unlimited, Foolscap Studio, Drawing Room, MADE, Spacing Edmonton, and 1650 collective) have collaborated with Aurora...
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Paved with good intentions
Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways Authors: Joseph F.C. DiMento and Cliff Ellis, (The MIT Press) To urbanist progressives, there is...
By sam singh