Maps
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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...
By Jason Pfeifer -
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...
By Jason Pfeifer -
Edmonton Streets
There’s a little bit of Edmonton in Saskatoon and Smithers, Gatineau and Guelph. In a trailer park in small town Michigan and an exclusive gated...
By Erik Backstrom -
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...
By Matthew Dance -
It’s time to quit hating on pedways
Pedways have been built in cities around the world for the same reason: weather. Most, in places like Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei, remove people from...
By Tim Querengesser -
Book Review: On the Map
On The Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks Author: Simon Garfield, (Gotham Books 2013) Maps show us where we’re going, but they...
By sam singh -
Cultural Landscapes: Aspen Parkland
When crossing this vast country, there is often the perception that the Canadian prairie landscape is rather homogenous and flat. Such gross...
By Paul Giang -
“self-made”: finding cultural identity in Chinatown
How do we design for identity? Two weekends ago, I have had the pleasure of attending a small conference within the Chinese community to discuss topics...
By Olivia Fung