Month: November 2011

  • Deadline Today Wed 30th Nov!

    Deadline Today WED NOV 30th @ 11:59pm PST!   Send your submissions to crsc@ualberta.ca    

  • 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!  

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.