Home and Garden, from the Rockies to the St . Lawrence
OTTAWA, TORONTO, CALGARY: New homes, and new or renewed forms of
homes, are a year-round attachment of Canadian home-and-garden
journalism. Generating newspaper attention recently was the growing
appreciation for the townhouse in Ottawa, top; the showhome of a
highrise-development in the Toronto suburb of Brampton, above left;
and a showhome for a tract-housing development in north Calgary. You
can learn a lot about your town when you read the out-of-town
newspapers. Consider this, from the Ottawa Citizen townhouse story:
"To a large extent, their proliferation comes from the maturing of
Ottawa as an urban centre and the municipality's professed
commitment to housing intensification to combat urban sprawl." Every
life-long Ottawa resident who thinks a townhouse an exemplar of
intense residency...
News In Brief
'Upcycling' is one of those reminders of the elasticity of the
English language. The word 'upcycle' has only appeared in this
newspaper twice in the last 10 years. It means, according to one of
the 342,000 Internet sites in which the word appears, the
"repurposing of a material into a product of higher quality. An
example would be a purse made out of woven candy wrappers." It must
have considerable currency in Calgary, if this introduction to a
Herald story on used-items stores is a guide: 'Don't have just the
right upcycle elements hanging around your baserment.? Check out
local flea markets, second-hand shops . . . ."
Builder scales apartments to appeal to downsizers
CASCADE -- Project location: Westwood Plateau, Coquitlam
Ginger delivers promised spice to Main Street
GINGER -- Project location: Strathcona, Vancouver
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