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Entrance to subway station (built 1995) in Bilbao, Spain (metro population 950k):

Robert W. Galston, The Rise & Sprawl
Fresh from fighting to save the footprint of Upper Fort Garry—a structure demolished in 1882—Heritage Winnipeg has just given the thumbs up to the demolition of the Albert Street Business Block (and the 130 year-old house that stands adjoined to it) because Ken Zaifman, the developer who has sought [...]

Robert Galston, Winnipeg Free Press
A drawing was released this month of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s future offices at Logan Avenue and Main Street, which is part of Centre Venture Development Corporation’s “cluster developments” for downtown. A 200-car parkade will adjoin the building, and up the street close to Higgins Avenue, a new surface [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
The nature of large publicly driven urban revitalization schemes in poor cities is to make the project take up as much room, and take out as much blight, as possible. Thus, 200 office workers and their parking spots take up an entire city block where a dozen buildings and [...]

One cannot care for streets they’ve never walked onRobert Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
Today, a new design for WRHA’s new office and parkade at Main and Logan was unveiled that has done what was thought to be impossible: be more visually deficient than the original conceptual drawing. The architect, Stantec, appeared to have drawn inspiration [...]

Robert W. Galston, The Rise and Sprawl
City Hall’s downtown development committee did the right thing yesterday and threw out the appeal to stop the construction of a 15-storey condo and retail building on Assiniboine Avenue between Hargrave and Carlton, the Free Press reports.
The building is, judging from this conceptual rendering, positively disgusting in its design, [...]

When it was announced in 1881 that the Canadian Pacific Railway would cross the Red River at Winnipeg, the young city’s future as Western Canada’s pre-eminent centre of trade, finance, and culture was secured. As a result, the already briskly growing city experienced a real estate boom of such stupendous proportions, that it would make [...]

James Kunstler visited Winnipeg in early 2007, and took a short tour of our city. He doesn’t think that the Museum of Human Rights looks all that great.
Original link from Kunstler.com website:
http://www.kunstler.com/eyesore_200703.html
Here’s a humdinger: a model of Canada’s new Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg. Ever been to Winnipeg? It’s an entire city built to [...]

Dallas Hansen, Winnipeg Free Press, September 23, 2006
There is in Winnipeg a constant chatter about the urgency of reinvigorating the inner city and downtown especially. Unfortunately, the specific, concrete steps that must be made are seldom mentioned, and all the splendid ideas have not been satisfyingly formed into a cohesive plan.
Since the need for a [...]

Glen Murray’s Remarks at the Amazing Possibilities Conference

Rozanski Hall, University of Guelph
May 5, 2006
Jane (Jacobs) talked about cities as places that generate wealth. If cities cannot generate wealth, if they cannot generate a surplus of wealth, they cease to exist. They don’t have a healthy economy. And if we don’t understand what real value is, [...]