Calgary's East Village master plan unveiled

[garycalgary]

the land is developed with basic amenities just ready for developers

[devious222]

this is probably one of the more important urban renewal projects in canada. As an architecture student, i'm expecting a sensitively orchestrated and progressive development. a very successful precedent (when considering lower income and homeless demographics without displacing/over-genetrificatio­n) is the woodward's project by Henriquez Partners Architects in vancouver's downtown east.

I also have massive hopes for the kind eddy project. please, calgary, follow through!!

[urbanewal]

Calgary is not known for creating great public spaces or architecture. The renderings look great and all, we'll see and judge when first phase is completed.

[devious222]

seems like an adequate amount of density - not too high and not too low (understandably there are less challenges given the urban environment in contrast to the brentwood plan, which is quite contentious). I am most pleased with the fact that some semblance of "progressive" architecture is shown in the plan instead of the typical nostalgic faux brick/stone nonsense that plagues so many new urbanist visions and so much of the garbage condos built in calgary in the early 2000s.

[devious222]

as opposed to what? A theme-park? Calgary needs new, dense urban communities in order to support a growing and more diversifying population and i'm actually quite pleased with what i see here.