Archives /// Waterfront
August 8th, 2011
Spacing Atlantic wants your photos!
By Abad Khan // 1 Comment
Captivated by the landscape of Canada's east coast cities? Obsessed with the beauty of a public space, the dirty grime of a back alley, a sidewalk's everyday dramas or the evolving skyline of your hometown?
Spacing Atlantic wants your urban photos. Please add them to our photo pool and we will select the best photos to be featured on our blog in our articles and in our Atlantic Snapshot series.
Expose yourself and shoot away Atlantic Canada (and don't forget to focus!).
Sorry, couldn't help myself. ...
February 22nd, 2011
Event Guide: Eastern Gateway Waterfront Presentation
By Joshua Biggley // No Comments
CHARLOTTETOWN - The Charlottetown Area Development Corporation is ready to reveal the Eastern Gateway Master Plan that will (we hope) transform the area at the foot of the Hillsborough Bridge, the Red Shores Raceway and the gateway to Charlottetown into a true representation of all that PEI's capital city has to offer.
WHAT: Eastern Gateway Waterfront Presentation
WHEN: Wednesday, February 23, 2011
WHERE: The Rodd Charlottetown Hotel (75 Kent Street)
This is a great opportunity to participate in the landscape of our city.
Photo by: Stephen Desroches
November 4th, 2010
From the Vaults: Water Street
By Lauren Oostveen // 4 Comments
The Nova Scotia Archives is pleased to share photos showcasing the changing faces of urban centers in Nova Scotia. You can learn more about the archives and explore thousands of photos, textual records, maps, art, and more on their website.
A look back at the shops and businesses that made up the Water Street area in Halifax.
Halifax, Looking North from the Grain Elevators, ca. 1886
August 31st, 2010
Big Day Downtown
By Lauren Oostveen // No Comments
HALIFAX - Downtown Halifax has certainly gone through some changes in the past few years. While some of my favourite shops have come and gone, it's important to remember that in order for downtown to thrive, it's up to us to support the unique businesses, stores, and restaurants that call downtown home. Enter: The Big Day Downtown, a promotion from the Downtown Halifax Business Commission that highlights the great things to do in Halifax's downtown core. 30 bloggers received $100 and were unleashed onto the mean streets of Halifax with one simple instruction: to document what they did with the money.
In the midst of moving from Woodside to Halifax, I actually found it hard to find the spare time to go out and spend the $100. The dozens of unpacked boxes sometimes literally created a wall between me and the downtown shops I wanted to visit — only a 10-minute walk away from my new abode.
After a weekend of hard work, I'm ready to head downtown today after work to spend the remaining $50. The first $50? Here's how I used it:
August 5th, 2010
Market Value
By Emma Feltes // 5 Comments
An abridged version of this article appeared in Spacing Magazine's 18th issue, 'Oh, The Spectacle'.
HALIFAX - The relationship between farm and city has been an ongoing dialogue among market-goers in Halifax — a city whose geographic and psychogeographic proximity to agricultural vitality provides ample opportunity for food politics to rise to the fore. Every Saturday morning, in grand tradition, this dialogue meanders its way through the labyrinth-like, historic Alexander Keith’s brewery, the site of Halifax’s beloved farmers’ market.
But, as of this Saturday, this dialogue (along with many local producers, chefs, artists and crafters) will move to the long awaited Seaport Farmers’ Market — a state-of-the-art, environmentally focused waterfront facility widely heralded as a groundbreaking new model in the realm of green building and local ingenuity.
May 6th, 2010
Halifax Jane’s Walk traverses transformation
By Spacing Atlantic // No Comments
HALIFAX - About 25 people gathered in front on the Halifax Farmers' Market last Saturday to take part in Halifax's Jane's Walk. This year's walk, "Change of (s)Pace," wandered through the downtown, stopping to muse about all kinds of transformations the city is undergoing.
photo by Alison Creba
Hosted by Spacing Atlantic contributors, we followed the participatory principle that everyone is an authority on their community. Anyone interested was given the opportunity to share thoughts and knowledge on their neighborhoods and city, taking up the megaphone whenever the urge arose.
April 26th, 2010
Atlantic snapshots: Dockyards from the South Side
By The Photographers // No Comments
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
by earlesd, member of the Spacing Atlantic Flickr Pool
March 1st, 2010
[Re]Presenting Halifax #5: Waterfront [Re]Visions
By Matt Neville // 1 Comment
The [Re]Presenting Halifax series revisits historical and contemporary maps, diagrams and other interpretive readings of the Halifax region. See my first post for the full aims of this project and more information about contributing to the series.
HALIFAX - Waterfront redevelopment has been a major focus of cities around the globe for decades. In the case of Halifax, it has been a process that has spanned decades. Halifax, much like Toronto, has struggled to find consensus for a waterfront redevelopment strategy. The plans and images presented here show two early visions for the renovation and revitalization of the Halifax waterfront. Although both plans may have had some influence on subsequent development, the future of the waterfront remains a contentious debate.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The redevelopment proposal from the 1971 plan. In addition to the highrises along the waterfront, it is interesting to note the terraced residential infill proposed at the base of the Citadel (much of which is occupied by the Metro Centre today)."][/caption]











