It’s always fun to find a bit of humour and whimsy on my travels. I saw this wheat-pasted poster along 124 Street. The fine print reads: “Won’t you take this job and mend this heart of mine?”
(LOCA)LOCOMOTION
NOW OPEN!
ONE LOVE
The City of Edmonton, the Alberta Legislature, and University of Alberta are flying the pride flag in support of LGBTQ athletes competing at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The flag will remain in place on the community flag pole until the games are over. Beginning in St. John's, Newfoundland, the trend quickly spread accross the country to include cities such as St. Albert, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Ottawa.
This week's edition of Back Words is brought to you in part by Colour Your Flag, a community-wide design challenge that invites Edmontonians of all ages to learn about flags and flag design. We want to have some fun, to know how you understand and experience Edmonton. How would you represent the city and your life here through your own flag? What symbols, colours, messages would you use? Go to colouryourflag.com for more information and to submit your own design!
ART SWEEPSTAKES
A little contest for you! I'm going to give a piece of art made by yours truly to a reader who knows where in the city this little guy is located. Send me your answers by tagging #backwords and mentioning me on twitter (@BoosChelsea). I will choose the lucky contestant by random draw on Wednesday, February 12. Good Luck!
GENESIS BY ROY LEADBEATER
RANDOM ACTS OF WARMNESS
DEAL WITH A WHITE DEVIL
MID CENTURY MARKINGS
ALPHABENE
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
A FRAGMENT OF HIS STORY
A MALL TIMELINE
The fully enclosed shopping mall did not appear until the mid-1950s.
West Edmonton Mall opened its doors in 1981.
It was the world's largest mall until 2004.
UP NOT OUT
The effects of urban sprawl is disastrous to happy livable cities, not to mention, food security and the health of the environment. For more information on the annexation proposal and to take the survey, click here.
IT'S OFFICIAL. WINTER IS HERE.
PERSONABLE SPACE
URBAN OPUS
A WISH AND A WARNING
It is our responsibility to treat buildings from our past as pieces of our heritage and therefore reflections of our collective identity. Similarly, the buildings we erect should embody the ideals we wish to pass on to future generations. We should not accept anything less.
Oliver Community League was a model of community engagement, and still they lost their battle. Allowing an icon like the Molson Brewery to go the way of the Arlington and the Gem Theatre should be a crime.
For more information regarding Oliver Community League's fight to have a say in the Molson Crosstown redevelopment, and stay up to date on the project's progress, click here.
FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
Quoted from Challenges and Warts: How Physical Places Define Local Economies on Project for Public Spaces.
A VIEW FROM THE TRAIN
THE GREEN DOOR
