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The Overhead: Breaking the addiction to high home values
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The Overhead: Breaking the addiction to high home values
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Breaking the addiction to high home values We’re all used to headlines about impossibly soaring housing prices in ...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
City of Edmonton’s Making Space podcast brings zoning back to earth for people
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Jane Leadbeater has been living in Edmonton for 15 years, thinking about zoning for seven and listening to podcasts for five. The new Making Space podcast is hitting home—and work—for her.   “I love the podcast,” said Leadbeater.  “You don’t have to be a zoner or an engineer or a d...
Published at Transforming Edmonton
“When you can pick where you play, you pick Edmonton,” says Garth Brooks of Commonwealth Stadium concerts
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Hours before he was set to hit the stage at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium for the first of two sold-out shows, country megastar Garth Brooks sang the praises of the city, the fans and the facility where it will all come together.  “Try to remember that I’ve been doing this for 150 years,” ...
Published at Transforming Edmonton
The Overhead: Fixing the housing market
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The Overhead: Fixing the housing market
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Fixing the housing market The housing market is one everyone’s minds these days. It determines who can live where,...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
How the City takes a bite out of mosquitoes: an interview with Pest Management Coordinator, Mike Jenkins
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What do ponds, eavestroughs, bird feeders and patio furniture have in common?   According to Mike Jenkins, all-around bug guy and a Pest Management Coordinator with the City of Edmonton, they’re all ground zero for one of the summer’s biggest nuisances, the mosquito. “The City of Edmont...
Published at Transforming Edmonton
Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
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Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
Written by Daniel Kaven, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022 In the weeks leading up to my 40th birthday, I took an epic road trip. I drove east from Los Angeles through the desert highways, pueblos, and truck stops of my childhood in search of an understanding of the western architecture that I have always ...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
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Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
Written by Daniel Kaven, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022 In the weeks leading up to my 40th birthday, I took an epic road trip. I drove east from Los Angeles through the desert highways, pueblos, and truck stops of my childhood in search of an understanding of the western architecture that I have always ...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
NEW ISSUE: Rain
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I’ll place a bet that you cursed rain sometime this season. Spring is rainy, but it’s not yet warm enough for the rain to be a relief from drought or heat. Instead, it’s wet and grey and still a bit chilly, putting a damper on outdoor activity just as the weather starts to get warmer […] Th...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
NEW ISSUE: Rain
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NEW ISSUE: Rain
I’ll place a bet that you cursed rain sometime this season. Spring is rainy, but it’s not yet warm enough for the rain to be a relief from drought or heat. Instead, it’s wet and grey and still a bit chilly, putting a damper on outdoor activity just as the weather starts to get warmer […] Th...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
NEW ISSUE: Rain
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NEW ISSUE: Rain
I’ll place a bet that you cursed rain sometime this season. Spring is rainy, but it’s not yet warm enough for the rain to be a relief from drought or heat. Instead, it’s wet and grey and still a bit chilly, putting a damper on outdoor activity just as the weather starts to get warmer […] Th...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
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Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
Written by Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro, Rizzoli Books, 2021 This book presents the work and imaginings of this iconic architect in an accessible and compelling form, including color photographs, drawings, quotations from his writings, as well as newly commissioned diagrams and thoughtful...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
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Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
Written by Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro, Rizzoli Books, 2021 This book presents the work and imaginings of this iconic architect in an accessible and compelling form, including color photographs, drawings, quotations from his writings, as well as newly commissioned diagrams and thoughtful...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
The Overhead: Non-market housing solutions
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The Overhead: Non-market housing solutions
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Non-market housing solutions For many housing advocates, part of the solution to providing affordable housing is removin...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
The Overhead: Non-market housing solutions
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The Overhead: Non-market housing solutions
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Non-market housing solutions For many housing advocates, part of the solution to providing affordable housing is removin...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
Why we must stop the ‘urbicide’ — the killing of cities
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The 21st century was supposed to be the “century of the city.” As of 2007, 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and the United Nations has estimated that by 2050, that figure will rise to 75%. As I write this, I am in the midst of days of doom-scrolling news of the bombing […] The...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
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