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Bob Hawksworthe and the Airport Tunnel controversy
Mayoral candidate Bob Hawksworthe recently issued a press release on the airport tunnel debate, explaining his perspective of why he is against this construction idea. In the spirit of helping our community make informed voting decisions in the upcoming election, you can read more about it at: http://bob4mayor.ca/Default.aspx?pageId=663297&mode=PostView&bmi=401649
Best Neighbourhoods in Calgary
Avenue Magazine latest issue has done a study of the best neighbourhoods in Calgary. The study was based off community wide surveys.
The top 15 communities were as follows:
1. Elboya
2. West Hillhurst
3. Rosedale
4. Sunnyside
5. Elbow Park
6. Altadore
7. Inglewood
8. Ramsay
9. Hillhurst
10. Parkhill/Stanley Park
11. Tuscany
12. Crescent Heights
13. Shaganappi
14. Lake Bonavista
15. Edgemont
False Friendliness: Photoshopped People in Public Spaces
Proposals for new projects arrive on city desks everyday showing vibrant public plazas full of people. But too often those spaces fail to attract people in the way they were portrayed. Are Photoshopped people a deliberate falsehood?
Children run playfully about, chasing pigeons. A jogger passes by, and a businesswoman chats on a cell phone. Seniors perch on the edge of a fountain, watching the throngs of people as they pass.
In fact, there are masses of people keeping these folks company, filling an imaginary public space like a dance troupe on a stage. So it goes in the world of architectural renderings and development proposals, where the desire to show that public spaces can become vibrant and active results in a flurry of Photoshopped humans filling the frame.
