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Wow What Amazing Submissions!
The deadline has passed and we are delighted to announce we received over 90 submissions from a very international crowd. We received submissions from China, Egypt, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, Lebanon, India, Iran, Holland, Canada and the US. The submissions are also of an extremely high standard both conceptually and in terms of the design…
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Deadline Today Wed 30th Nov!
Deadline Today WED NOV 30th @ 11:59pm PST! Send your submissions to crsc@ualberta.ca
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1 Week till Wed Nov 30th Deadline!
Just a reminder that there is 1 Week till the Wed Nov 30th Deadline!! We are very much looking forward to receiving your submissions to reinvent the strip mall!
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Ellen Dunham-Jones & Strip Appeal Activities
I just want to remind you that the deadline for submission is Nov 30th 2011. The email address to send your entries to is: crsc@ualberta.ca If your attachment file size is large please send your entry to this address via yousendit or dropbox. If you have any issues with this please contact me directly: mpatchet@ualberta.ca. I also…
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Strip Appeal in the National Post
Strip Appeal was the topic of a full page spread (A8) in Canada’s National Post today: With Photos: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-strip-malls-crumbles-toward-extinction Without photos: http://www.nationalpost.com/Mall+stripped+bare/5700741/story.html The article, by Tristin Hopper discusses the history and relevance of the Strip Mall: “The first time cultural geographer Merle Patchett saw Edmonton’s sprawl from the airplane, she felt the culture shock shared…
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Strip Appeal Front Page News
News about the competition recently made the front page of the Edmonton Journal where they covered a submission to the competition by Industrial design student Larry Kwok and collaborator Jim Morrow who have come with an inventive model to diversify the current retail model for strip malls by recycling shipping containers: Click here for the full story.
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New York City Planner Offers Tips on How Edmonton Can Redesign its Strip Malls
The Edmonton Journal, in the video above, catches Project for Public Spaces (PPS’s) Cynthia Nikitin in action, doing a tough critique of an Edmonton strip mall. On a scale of one to 10, Nikitin gave the Lendrum strip mall a six; high scores for local businesses showing pride in what they do, but low scores…
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Size of Site: 0.2-0.5ha
In the competition brief there is a typo regarding the size of Strip Mall site: It should say 0.2-0.5ha. If you are finding it difficult to find a strip mall this size we will except a slightly larger site as long as the strip mall itself would be considered a ‘small-box’ retail site of roughly…
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crsc@ualberta.ca – address to send your submissions
PLEASE SEND YOUR SUBMISSIONS to: crsc@ualberta.ca
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Strip Appeal Announced on CBC Radio
Rob Shields, director of the City-Region Studies Centre at the University of Alberta, and Merle Patchett, a post-doctoral fellow standing in front of the Lansdowne Centre in Southwest Edmonton. To here us in interview click on the following link: http://www.cbc.ca/edmontonam/2011/09/13/strip-appeal/