Archive for 'New Urbanism'
The end of the urban fabric at Higgins and Main
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 [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2007 under Downtown Revitalization, Heritage Preservation, Mixed Use, New Urbanism, Urban Studies.
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For a better future, Winnipeg must look to the past
By Robert Galston
Outsiders don’t get away with bashing cities. This is especially true when they do a sloppy job of it. Whether it is London, Paris, Rome, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Vancouver, Portage La Prairie or Winnipeg, citizens stand up to deflect outside criticism.
Julian Strauss, the writer of a feature in last weeks [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2007 under Heritage Preservation, New Urbanism.
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Owners of vacant land downtown should be taxed at a higher rate to spur development
Winnipeg Free Press
September 3, 2006
Page A9
By Steve Cohlmeyer
A recent article in this newspaper bemoaned Winnipeggers’ lack of pride, and our embarrassment about our city as a place to visit. There is a lot about the city which makes it well worth the visit, and we have, for years, enjoyed showing surprised visitors how large, varied [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2006 under Downtown Revitalization, New Urbanism, Urban Studies.
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Big box culture due to fail
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 [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2006 under Mixed Use, New Urbanism, Transit, Urban Sprawl.
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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, TRUMail, Transit.
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