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Albania, like many post-socialist countries, has experienced the rapid privatization of state-owned housing, rising housing prices in high-growth urban markets and shortages of affordable housing for low-income families.

With no meaningful heritage protection, the future of Calgary’s first skyscraper and its storied theatre hangs in the balance as a series of property owners duke it out in court.

Environmental Design (EVDS) assistant professor, Joshua Taron, was awarded both the Alberta regional and the People’s Choice award in Migrating Landscapes; a national architecture competition.

After more than 100 years of trying to preserve the bison in North America, conservationists are relocating 70 of the species from Canada to their ancestral home in Montana – the second such move in three years.

Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary

"Over the last few months, we've learned so much about Calgary neighbourhoods—what works and what could work better—as a result of the Project Calgary series.

The Faculty of Environmental Design (EVDS) is offering two unique research opportunities to both graduate and post-doctoral students interested in resilience and regional sustainability.

The students would work on a project to develop and implement an innovative approach to sustainability that incorporates social ecological systems thinking into strategic policy formation for regional land use planning.

Michael Weinstock—architect and director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecturein London, England—is giving a lecture on Thursday in which he will explore how cities are no longer simply regarded as spatially extended material artifacts but as complex systems that are analogous to living organisms.

Over the past few decades governments, corporations, organizations and citizens have been struggling to understand the implications of rapid industrialization, population growth, resource depletion, information technology and other factors on our health, happiness and quality of life. Given the many issues at play, the multiple scales impacted, the global dimensions at hand, and the complexity of activities, sustainability
as concept and application has been elusive and difficult, yet increasingly warranted and urgent.

Sipping coffee in a spacious Calgary bungalow, Sandra Horley is a long way from home. The single mother of two lives in Forest Lawn, an east side neighbourhood considered among the city’s most challenged. Car-less and often without bus fare, the 43-year-old, who depends on social assistance, gets around mainly by foot.

Environmental Design (EVDS) Master candidate, Colleen Arnison has received the Government of Alberta Graduate Citizenship Award (AGCA) for her contribution to community development and community leadership during the 2010-11 school year.