Archive for March, 2006
Chicago hope
The Windy City offers an ideal urban model
DALLAS HANSEN
March 25, 2006
LAST Saturday, as my girlfriend and I emerged from the Apple computer store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, the sidewalks were buzzing with talk of a looming anti-war protest. As we rounded the corner onto Oak Street, a massive crowd began marching toward us chanting, [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2006 under Downtown Revitalization, Mixed Use, Urban Studies.
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TRUMail - March 17, 2006
Hello,
My name is Julie Penner and I am a former Winnipegger, now living in Toronto (there are so many of us!). I was just directed to your site tonight and am finding it, and its links, quite fascinating.
Many people in Winnipeg have such a skewed sense of the “big city” of Toronto. They’re shocked when [...]
Posted: March 17th, 2006 under Civic Beauty, Downtown Revitalization, Mixed Use, New Urbanism, Transit.
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Core a national shame
Winnipeg Free Press, March 2, 2006
Dallas Hansen
Winnipeg’s dilapidated inner city, an awkward subject for those of us who live here, has recently again been discussed in a national context. Julius’s Strauss’s now-infamous expos in the Globe and Mail last Saturday has shown Canada’s Gateway to the West for what it truly is: a national embarrassment.
Sure, [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2006 under Downtown Revitalization, Mixed Use, Urban Studies.
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