{"id":1948,"date":"2013-08-19T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2013-08-19T22:16:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:16:50","slug":"edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton&#8217;s urbanism headlines: August 11 \u2013 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CITY POLITICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/news\/Staples+have+live+ward+represent+city+well\/8784900\/story.html\">Staples: More than half of city councillors do not live in wards they represent<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/daveberta.ca\/2013\/08\/so-you-want-to-be-an-edmonton-election-candidate\/\">So you want to be an Edmonton election candidate?<\/a>\u00a0[Daveberta]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doniveson.ca\/2013\/08\/14\/street-oriented-brownstones-housing-choice\/\">Street-oriented brownstones<\/a>: Don Iveson on Housing Choice\u00a0[Don Iveson]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/sports\/1978+Games+went+like+dream\/8775576\/story.html\">Aug. 12, 1978: Games went like a dream<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/travel\/1959+University+donated+land+Devon+botanic+garden\/8774111\/story.html\">Aug. 11, 1959: University to use donated land at Devon for botanic garden<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/news\/Sloan+pulls+city+council+race+Ward\/8798490\/story.html\">Sloan pulls plug on re-election campaign, retires from politics<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CITY<\/strong> <strong>LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/entertainment\/festivals\/Thousands+flock+downtown+Edmonton+colourful\/8774312\/story.html\">Thousands flock to downtown Edmonton for colourful Caribbean-style street party<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edmonton.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=986491&amp;binId=1.1203428&amp;playlistPageNum=1\">Video coverage of the first 97 Street Night Market organized by Our Chinatown<\/a>\u00a0[CTV News]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vueweekly.com\/front\/story\/patio_preference\/\">Sidewalk patio guidelines cater more to sipping than shopping<\/a>\u00a0[Vue Weekly]<\/li>\n<li>Have you seen these at the Fringe this week?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.makesomethingedmonton.ca\/projects\/287-yeg-barricade-re-design-competition\/\">YEG Barricade Re-Design Competition<\/a>\u00a0[Make Something Edmonton]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GETTING<\/strong> <strong>AROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/story\/2013\/08\/17\/edmonton-wayfinding-downtown.html\">Are the downtown pedways too hard to navigate?<\/a>\u00a0[CBC]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/metronews.ca\/voices\/footnotes\/768178\/better-wayfinding-or-find-your-own-way-around-edmonton\/\">Better wayfinding, or find your own way around Edmonton<\/a>\u00a0[Metro News]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/sports\/Pedway+linking+Coliseum+Expo+Centre+could+cost+million\/8795071\/story.html\">Pedway linking Coliseum LRT to Expo Centre could cost $30 million<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/travel\/Videos+teach+rules+road+with+Lego\/8795348\/story.html\">Videos teach Edmonton drivers and cyclists the rules of the road with Lego<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>CURIOSITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/business\/real-estate\/With+home+boom+inning+even+good+news+portend\/8774996\/story.html\">Canadians appear to be &#8216;drunk on housing&#8217; and approaching a hangover<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to film maker Adam Bentley:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/entertainment\/movie-guide\/Edmonton+public+pottie+gets+documentary\/8776042\/story.html\">Edmonton\u2019s public potty gets a documentary<\/a>\u00a0[Edmonton Journal]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CITY POLITICS Staples: More than half of city councillors do not live in wards they represent\u00a0[Edmonton Journal] So you want to be an Edmonton election candidate?\u00a0[Daveberta] Street-oriented brownstones: Don Iveson on Housing Choice\u00a0[Don Iveson] HISTORY Aug. 12, 1978: Games went like a dream\u00a0[Edmonton Journal] Aug. 11, 1959: University to use donated land at Devon for<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Edmonton&#8217;s urbanism headlines: August 11 \u2013 18&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8111,"featured_media":1950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Edmonton&#039;s urbanism headlines: August 11 \u2013 18 - Spacing Edmonton<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paul Giang\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/\",\"name\":\"Edmonton's urbanism headlines: August 11 \u2013 18 - Spacing Edmonton\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/08\/chinatown_market.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-08-20T04:23:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/#\/schema\/person\/5c568d4ad3a9e6a81f55f1a6b7e94b5f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/2013\/08\/19\/edmontons-urbanism-headlines-august-11-18\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/08\/chinatown_market.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/edmonton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/08\/chinatown_market.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":540,\"caption\":\"97 Street Night Market organized by Our Chinatown. 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