Neighbourhoods
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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 -
A Downtown for Everyone
There are more places to live in Downtown Edmonton than ever before. As part of this revitalization, the City is campaigning that it is doing its part by...
By Paul Giang -
118 Avenue: Just More Gentrification?
At some point, it would seem that every visitor or newcomer to our city will be asked to visit the Whyte Avenue strip. It’s not hard to see why, as...
By Vincent Puhakka -
Jasper Avenue still a Player in Downtown Revival
Is it all really doom and gloom? Last week an Edmonton Journal editorial painted a rather bleak picture for Jasper Avenue and what it means for downtown...
By Paul Giang -
Imagining Edmonton’s Main Street
Jasper Avenue is said to be Edmonton’s main street. But what does that mean? Its multiple uses–as destination and as thoroughfare, as pedestrian...
By Paul Giang -
Preserving Chinatown
This article was originally published for Spacing’s Summer 2015 Issue available at Chapters. After decades of City neglect and pressure for action...
By Paul Giang -
Reimagine YEG: Blatchford Control Tower
Image rendering created by Michael Zabinski. The image is fictional and does not serve as official material for the Blatchford redevelopment. For more...
By Paul Giang -
Edmonton’s Got a Fever
Tall buildings are all the rage in Edmonton these days. It seems the flood gates have opened on a new tall building frenzy, the likes of which is...
By Kyle Witiw -
Papaschase: “Big Woodpecker”
To relocate the Métis-Cree away from Fort Edmonton and the highly-valued North Saskatchewan River, negotiations were made to create the Papaschase Indian...
By Paul Giang -
An Inhabitable Space
Nested in a small industrial district just south of Whyte Ave, Mike Lam‘s industrial design studio embodies a remarkable supply of tools and...
By Olivia Fung -
City and Campus
Academic institutions have an interesting relationship with cities. While campuses across the country strive to develop a nurturing bastion from external...
By Peter West -
Blatchford: A radio documentary
With the recent changes to the plan for Blatchford, the new neighbourhood planned for Edmonton’s City Centre Airport lands, I thought it might be of...
By Lana Cuthbertson