- Dev Team
- 01 Nov 2011
Positively jaded?
By Don Forbes I was walking through downtown Hamilton the other day, going from our office at Main and Hughson to James North. I enjoy that walk, as there a number of things that make me smile. It tak...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Nov 2011
The value of gamification
By Laura Farr Jane McGonigal predicates that there is a value to gamification – utilizing games to better society. With close to 160,000,000,000 hours spent on online gaming in the last year (15,000...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Nov 2011
The 5 essential economies of cities
Cities are inherently engines of economic development. By their very nature, cities bring a diversity and critical mass of people, ideas, energy and material inputs into close contact to generate enor...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Nov 2011
The poet of Locke Street South
By Elisha Stam In September, I kept bumping my stroller into pylons that would NOT move on Locke St. South. What possible Public Works project could this be, right in the middle of “my” sidewalk? ...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Nov 2011
New deal for Cities Redux
By Paul Shaker Almost 10 years ago, former Finance Minister Paul Martin addressed the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) conference in Hamilton and proclaimed the need for a “New Deal for C...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Sep 2011
Public engagement plus the built environment
By David Premi In order for Hamilton to become more competitive as a destination, we have an increasingly urgent need to make our city more walkable and liveable. We know from extensive recent researc...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Sep 2011
The big momma of Art Crawls
By Jamie Tennant Downtown renewal is exciting in concept, but watching it happen is like watching the proverbial paint dry. The pace is steady, but the movements are often so tiny they are barely perc...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Sep 2011
One James North
It hides in plain sight, an airy specimen of ’70s architecture at the corner of King and James. It’s walls of windows look down at life on the street. But no one looks up. The address is not famou...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Sep 2011
From the Editor | September, 2011
The time has come to take to the streets! I’m not actually referring to the type of ‘taking it to the streets’ permitted in section two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Instead, I...
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- Dev Team
- 01 Sep 2011
Making amalgamation work for Hamilton
I’m reading a book by David Rusk called Inside Game/Outside Game, in which he makes a persuasive argument that cities that want to revitalize their urban cores must first unite and align politic...
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