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Let’s Talk Growth | featuring Brent Toderian
Brent Toderian is the former Chief Planner for the City of Vancouver and has more than twenty years of experience from across Canada and around the world...
By Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon -
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...
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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...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: January 11 – 17
HERITAGE Metro talks with Edmonton’s outgoing historian laureate [Metro News] Why the people of Alberta, Canada, name everything after Winston...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: January 4 – 10
TRANSPORT ICYMI: Tristin Hopper writes a scathing article about the Metro Line [Edmonton Journal] … and here is Mack Male’s piece in...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: Winter Break
We hope you had a Happy New Year! Here’s a small collection of headlines you may have missed during the break: Need for social housing in Alberta...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: December 14 – 20
TRANSPORT Some new Edmonton EPark pay machines inaccessible [Metro News] Approval logjam-break enabled Pride crosswalks [City of Edmonton] Behind the...
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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...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: December 7 – 13
DEVELOPMENT Edmonton real estate market headed for 2016 correction: Experts [Metro News] Second phase of Edmonton’s Blatchford cleanup comes in well...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: November 30 – December 6
BUDGET Edmonton mayor announces 3.4% property tax increase [CBC] Edmonton budget highlights: Coyotes, breweries, Rossdale [Metro News] Surprise funding...
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What ETS riders need from a transit strategy: Part 2
Following the first part of this series, the second round of the transit strategy public meetings took place on November 17th and 18th. The purpose of...
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This is Harbin: Edmonton Road
As pointed out in a previous article by Erik Backstrom, our sister city in China has their very own Edmonton Road (埃德蒙顿路 or Āidéméngdùn lù). It is a major...
By Paul Giang
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered