History
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EDMODERNTOWN (Part II): Discontinuous History of Boom/Bust = Messy Vitality
Editor’s note: Part II of Trevor Boddy’s essay, EDMODERNTOWN: Four Factors Shaping Edmonton’s Architecture, which was initially published in...
By Paul Giang -
EDMODERNTOWN: Four Factors Shaping Edmonton Architecture (Part I)
Editor’s note: This essay was initially published in the Capital Modern catalogue from the Art Gallery of Alberta, 2007 . The author, Trevor Boddy...
By Paul Giang -
Church Street – Edmonton’s Sacred Heritage
Last week Edmonton City Council received a report detailing plans for Church Street- a small corridor within the McCauley neighbourhood up for municipal...
By Jennifer Laforest -
Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: April 28 to May 3
HERITAGE Edmonton’s Harbin Gate immortalized in set of new stamps honouring Chinatowns [Global] Herzog: The Brewery in Rossdale [Edmonton Heritage...
By Paul Giang -
Launch Event Recap: Photo Contest
We are proud to present the winning entry of Spacing Edmonton’s April photo contest submitted by Chris. Chris will receive two free tickets to the...
By Paul Giang -
COMMONPLACE: Rossdale Power Plant
The Mayor has threatened that it may ask the province to remove the Historical Designation (for the second time) on the Rossdale Power Plant. It’s...
By Chelsea Boos -
The Forgotten Spaces: Cemeteries
Every year at the start of spring, my family and I visit our ancestors at the cemetery during the Qing Ming festival. For each family member that we...
By Stephanie Mah -
The spacingTime Continuum – Inaugural Whyte Ave Edition
There’s just something inexplicably cool (to me) about seeing a photo of a horse drawn carriage filled with a moustachioed brass band circa...
By Kurt Borth -
Serving Suburbs With Mobile Libraries
As I have gotten older and more interested in the dialogue of what makes a city, one component of urban life I am starting to see as a vital piece of...
By David Cooper -
Remembering Indigenous Edmonton: a journey through plants
When I was little, my Dad used to take us through the river valley and point out the places where houses used to stand, before the valley became a green...
By Zoe Todd -
Editor’s Note: Framing Spacing Edmonton
The idea of urbanism in the Prairies is not well known to many Canadians or even Prairie folk. When examining Canadian urbanism, it is easy to dismiss...
By Paul Giang