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- Frustrated environmental groups quit Alberta oilsands body
Three environmental groups have walked away in frustration from an advisory body on Alberta’s booming oilsands, saying it’s not effective and the government is not paying any attention.
The Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) was set up by the provincial government in 2000 with members from First Nations groups, industry and environmental representatives. Its mandate was [...]
- Second biggest Green roof in North America nearing completion
With the completion next spring of the new convention centre in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour, there will be a few blocks of new parkland added to the city — but they’re strictly for the birds and the bees.
The expansion project, west of the current convention centre, is being topped off with a 2.4-hectare green — or [...]
- Vancouver buys building, first of 12 planned sites - globeandmail.com
The city of Vancouver has purchased a two-storey building at 514 Alexander Street for approximately $860,000, and the 20 single-occupancy units currently on the property will be upgraded to provide supportive housing.
This comes on the heels of last week’s approval of 12 city-owned sites for social housing.
read more @ the SOURCE: globeandmail.com: Vancouver buys building, [...]
- Some urban spots noticeably hotter than others
As global warming threatens to raise temperatures around the world, a phenomenon known as urban heat islands might jack the mercury up even higher across Montreal and especially in the West Island.
Read more @ the SOURCE: The Gazette – Some urban spots noticeably hotter than others.
- More than 550 firms register their interest in international design competition
More than 550 companies from across the world have registered their interest in an international design competition to create inspirational public spaces in six town centres in Lancashire.
The brief for Pennine Lancashire Squared will be launched this Friday (August 15) in Nelson, but the competition has already attracted interest from more than 40 countries, including [...]
- Planning for a growing city
Slowly but surely, Oshawa’s suburban landscape is changing.
They city’s population is expected to increase by 6,000 people in the next eight years and jump to 182,000 by 2031.
read more @ the SOURCE: newsdurhamregin.com – Planning for a growing city.
- Urban inversion - TheStar.com
The latest wrinkle in Toronto’s city building cycle is how our vaunted diversity has been on the move
SOURCE: TheStar.com | Ideas | Urban inversion.
- A DIY Guide To Building A Green Roof Hits The Virtual Shelves.
London, England. Two of the UK’s leading proponents of green roofs have teamed up to produce ‘THE DIY GUIDE TO GREEN & LIVING ROOFS’ - a guide aimed at individuals with a Do-It-Yourself inclination along with those having trouble persuading local contractors to take up the challenge of installing a green roof on their behalf.
‘The [...]
- NCC panel to blame for bad designs
NCC panel to blame for bad designsArchitects on review committee should quit posts, acclaimed expert says
Read more @ the Ottawa Citizen – NCC panel to blame for bad designs.
- Magnet for creative types
The downtown Exchange District has become a magnet for architects, designers and planners, and no one has felt that pull more than the owners of Scatliff Miller Murray.
Twice in the past 11 years, the landscape architecture firm has outgrown its Exchange District office and had a chance to bolt to the suburbs. And both times [...]
