The Kerry Wood Nature Centre wants to bring play back by bridging the great urban and natural divide.
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Discussing the urban rural interface of Cochrane
The urban rural interface is a dynamic change-driven location, teeming with life. It can also be a place of ecological and social conflict if not properly managed through buffers, education and promotion of good will and trust among those with competing interests.
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Urbanista snobs need to settle down
Last year’s civic election had a few ugly sides, the most lingering being the wedge politics that pitted Calgarian against Calgarian.
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St. Albert mayor seeks to avoid urban-rural rift
As the dust settles in civic elections around the province, a councillor from the city next door has already started talking about how Edmonton needs to get a bigger share of the region’s industrial tax revenue.
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Urban life in lush greenspace
It is easy to forget that not long ago, a great portion of Edmonton’s deep south west end was greenspace. Since only 2007, the Secord development in the Winterburn area has gone from isolated land to neighbourhoods of families in a tranquil location where wildlife roams in the surrounding nature.
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Growing pains: Facing common challenges, municipalities in capital region can compete or co-operate
EDMONTON – Sherwood Park is making plans to double in size, Edmonton has launched a new annexation bid to the south, and Sturgeon County is proposing a new urban area around the city of St. Albert.
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An established and growing area
Located just off of hwy 21, in Fort Saskatchewan, you will find the community of South Pointe, with parks, playground, ponds and walkways found within greenspace. The growing community sits close to a new retail complex, hospital and the Dow Centennial Centre.
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Urban living in greenspace
It is easy to forget that not long ago, a great portion of Edmonton’s deep south west end was greenspace.
Since only 2007, the Secord development in the Winterburn area has gone from isolated land to neighbourhoods of families in a tranquil location where wildlife roams in the surrounding nature.
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/bl8qvux
We’re a nation of suburban apartment-dwellers, but afraid to admit it
What kind of housing do you think is most uniquely Canadian: The Victorian semi-detached house? The suburban split level? The downtown glass condo tower?
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Century Gardens Park Redevelopment Sparks Urban Values Debate
On the corner of Eighth Avenue and Eighth Street S.W. is a strange and striking juxtaposition of concrete and nature. Angular structures coexist with the surrounding foliage, and when the weather is warm, water cascades over and around them, and the concrete seems to embody the very forces of nature. Pedestrians can often be seen walking through the park to and from the adjacent 8th Street C-Train platform, and in late spring and summer — or on a Chinook-warmed winter’s day — the park is filled with lunch-eating office-tower refugees, chess players and even parkour enthusiasts.
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