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There is a misconception that Winnipeg is not a city of mixed-use buildings, where people reside in apartments and rooms above shops or services. And while Winnipeg has historically been, first and foremost, a city of houses, the city’s faded wealth of mixed-use buildings–the most urban of all building typologies–is either unknown or poorly understood [...]

By Robert Galston
This past weekend was spent in the local history room of the Millennium Library looking through the old Henderson Directories. It was in order to gain a better understanding of Main Street’s urban past. In searching, I decided that 1945 was the year I was going to concentrate on. It is recent in [...]

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 [...]

Editor’s Note: Just going through old e-mails, and one from May 24, 2006 from a Robert (evanscott AT rogers) says:
Hello,
I’m writing to say how much I’m impressed with your web site. I stumbled on it very recently – part of my ongoing investigation on Winnipeg today. I’m strongly considering moving back soon and situating my [...]

The Winnipeg Free Press – May 6, 2006
City must fill more than potholes to keep its young
By Robert W. Galston
On her walks through downtown, Suzanne Beaubien (The Gauntlet, May 4) seems to experience daily the fruition of Norman Wilson’s grim warning for a downtown Winnipeg without rapid transit: A place where “the dead storage of [...]

Winnipeg Free Press
Sat Apr 22 2006
Dallas Hansen
Columnist
AUTHOR James Howard Kunstler was in town Wednesday to give a talk promoting his new book, The Long Emergency. For those of you who have never read him, Kunstler believes we are now at the peak of the oil supply curve and that the subsequent and imminent [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

By Dallas Hansen
First appeared Winnipeg Free Press November 26, 2005

Recently in the Free Press, David Witty, Dean of the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture, wrote about the importance of good design without specifying what might qualify as “good,” and without stepping on any toes by labeling anything bad.
Dean Witty did come close. He offered [...]