First of all, there is a school of thought - and one that I generally believe in - that all feasible solutions should be looked at before vintage or historic buildings are torn down. [...] unless there is another new development project in the wings that would require the purchase of land and demolition of the whole block between Ninth and 10th streets - south of the buildings facing Rosser Avenue, and yes, including the sketchy Brandon Inn - then the Brandon Folk Music and Art Society's Strand project is the only game in town at the moment. "In returning home, I wanted to express my pride in Brandon, to express my commitment as a private citizen, and most importantly, I desperately wanted to encourage aspirations to build this city with good planning principles, with care, thoughtful...
The entire townsite was situated on a section of the land Pierce was holding. The only buildings to be exempt were the church, the vicarage and the school. Since Pierce was such a staunch Anglican, he decided to construct an Anglican church, so the church was one of the first buildings to be built.
In Des Moines, Iowa, the city expropriated abandoned or under-used lands, cleared debris and empty buildings, and installed topsoil and sod -- creating so-called greenfield sites in brownfield locations. The result has been new investment and revitalization. Montreal passed a law two years ago with a blanket prohibition of surface parking lots. In Lisbon, landowners in an older section of the city showed no interest in investing -- waiting until some magic day in the future when everything would be rosy. They resisted the city's efforts to encourage development, and the city expropriated their lands, built what they had been trying to encourage, and, in many cases, re-sold the improved lands to the original landowners -- who are now making handsome returns on the entire affair. In Winni...
An impending land claim on the Kapyong Barracks by one group of First Nations is preventing the government from moving the houses on the site to another group of First Nations, Manitoba cabinet minister Steven Fletcher said this week. It's frustrating," said Fletcher. "We have offered to provide those houses to First Nations communities for nothing. The Kapyong site was abandoned in September 2004 when the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry unit was moved to Shilo. The government declared as surplus the Kapyong barracks land -- 160 acres and 49 buildings -- and was in the process of selling the land when everything was halted by a land claim by the Treaty 1 First Nations.
... pursuant to the Quebec Act respecting land use planning and development, was amended by by-la... to obtain a permit (1) for temporary buildings; (2) integrated buildings that were anticipated in...
Now we have our own inner-city youths pleading for a green space at Gordon Bell High School for physical activities and to appreciate the environment. Unfortunately, that land is desirable and owned by Canada Post. Though there are nice large "heritage" buildings only minutes away on Portage Avenue from this proposed location, Canada Post certainly never rushed in to obtain one. And who more fitting than a federal agency like Canada Post to occupy a "heritage" building? This city is lagging behind and it is no secret. We are Canada's worst recyclers, least energy-efficient, have the worst downtown and hold the title of the world's Slurpee capital. And it's no wonder: When our own youth make an outcry for green space and are shut down by a federal organization, when we'd rather see urban...
A battle is brewing between heritage advocates and downtown revitalization types over an East Exchange warehouse that's slated to become a new home for Sport Manitoba. But there are conflicting reports about what's planned for the 124-year-old structure formally known as the Smart Bag Company Building. In Friday's Free Press, I wrote a short news story about Prosperity Knitwear's request to remove its factory outlet at 145 Pacific Ave. from the city's heritage building registry. (In my haste to knock off the story, I stupidly wrote "145 Princess Ave." My apologies.) Prosperity Knitwear, which has suffered through the downturn in the garment industry, wants to knock down the older, three-storey component of the building and sell the land below. The city's historical buildings committee, ...
... of high-quality space but we have a lot of land available that can be developed into commercial an... anyone who wants to look at land and buildings and help in any way it can to grow its retail indu...
Though a detailed plan has not been made public, the two councils intend to construct walking trails, replicas of fort buildings, an interpretive area and a fairground on the land. In a document drawn up by their lawyer dated March 4, the Fouillards formally complained to the Land Value Appraisal Commission that the RM of Ellice has blatantly disregarded and continues to blatantly disregard its statutory obligation to pay immediately the $72,000 offer of compensation made by it.
In order to understand Canada as a nation, one has to trace Britain's colonial history, the mapping of "Canada," and the making of it as a British nation, for as Jane M. Jacobs notes, space exists within the context of imperialism and is "formed out of the cohabitation of variously empowered people and the meanings they ascribed to localities and places" (Jacobs, 1996, p. 5). The Canadian nation has actively built a history that begins with discovery, as if it were a land of empty wilderness before British arrival. The colonial project was to create and solidify a "history of whiteness" in Canada in order to legitimize colonial rule. Nativist discourses were drawn on to create the idea of a native Anglo-Canadian people, and to "naturalize British ideas about law, the state and religion"...
... mat the architecture of government buildings is used to legitimate particular ruling and to sup...
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