David Holdsworth
@holdsurf
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Heritage, Urban Design, Planning and all those arty and whimsical things that make great places. Always addicted to coffee and beer
Edmonton
Joined January 2014
We ❤️ our Chinatown! Applications are open for the 2026 Chinatown Vibrancy Fund, which helps community-led events, festivals and cultural projects. Learn more at https://t.co/sDJGGAG3DM
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Applications are open for the City’s 2026 Chinatown Vibrancy Fund! Help bring visitors to our historic Chinatown with a festival, event or cultural project. For more info, visit https://t.co/sDJGGAG3DM
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We want your feedback on the draft 2027-2030 Climate Action concepts. ♻️🌎 Visit our pop-up booth! 📅 Thursday, January 8 ⏰1:30 - 3:30 pm 📍Clareview Recreation Centre, 2704 17 St NW Stop by and share your input! Learn more at https://t.co/FVR6eJRh3Z
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The latest award winning design in Edmonton announced today! Edmonton Urban Design Awards | City of Edmonton
edmonton.ca
The Urban Design Awards celebrate the best new projects in Edmonton. Through the program, we recognize individuals, organizations, firms and projects that have contributed to urban design and the...
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Join us in shaping a new Heritage Places Strategy for the City. The strategy reimagines how we preserve the places that are most important to our community. Tell us your thoughts at https://t.co/Anwwl5NKfL
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Yesterday, I was proud to announce the next step to increasing access to student housing in Edmonton through the $15-million Downtown Student Housing Incentive, part of the Housing Accelerator Fund Action Plan. Post-secondary institutions are expanding in downtown Edmonton,
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Affordable housing does not need to be ugly and we would get a lot more of it approved and built if your average citizen didn’t view its construction as a tradeoff against beauty.
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There may be hope for for the historic Royal Alberta Museum building! https://t.co/zu3HLPdCW3
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We heard you. Albertans have a strong connection to the old Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, so we are exploring all options to repurpose the site. We are opening one more opportunity to hear from...
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Creative folk looking to have your art on a shutter downtown? See this Instagram post by @yeg_chinatown
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66 likes, 5 comments - yeg_chinatown on July 6, 2025: "The CHINATOWN SHUTTER DESIGN CONTEST is looking for artists to submit their vector file drawings for a chance to be featured on the shutters...
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Looking for those great projects that should be recognised! Edmonton's Urban Design Awards 2025 is open for submissions @bildedmonton @yegheritage
Submissions are now open for the 2025 Edmonton Urban Design Awards! Architects, planners, designers, artists and students are invited to enter for an award in one of 9 categories. Find out more at https://t.co/9pIuBNmm7H.
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Should be interesting. Curious to see if it builds on the themes that seem to already have emerged in the town https://t.co/pwB2uvbecS
calgaryherald.com
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After researching your historic home’s history and determining whether you’re restoring or rehabilitating it, you can start planning your project. You can take on as many or as few aspects of planning as desired but don't forget these integral steps. https://t.co/AFfQHdnInl
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"The most sustainable building is one too beautiful to tear down.", by @lloydalter
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Looking forward to the book of poems from one of the nicest planning colleagues I know. Hope there's one about planning! @HelloTa
@PlanEdmonton
The city is poetry for Marco Melfi https://t.co/JQOT9Em88W
#yeg
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The City of Edmonton is updating it's heritage strategy. A great opportunity to add great ideas or new directives to help ensure our heritage resources (from the phsical to cultural) are better protected and promoted in the future .
engaged.edmonton.ca
We invite you to learn more about the new Heritage Places Strategy being developed on the draft principles and pillars.
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Heritage goes beyond just buildings. We want all voices and people reflected in our new Heritage Places Strategy. Tell us what you think by visiting https://t.co/D6oHhosHCq
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The Terwillegar Drive Expansion isn’t just for vehicles—it includes three new game-changing pedestrian and cyclist bridges, plus upgraded shared pathways. 🌉✨ Want to know when and where they’re opening? Get the full details on our blog! https://t.co/UdkToAo19l
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Two projects by the Dutch architecture firm Van Manen in The Hague, in what they describe as 'Hollandse stijl', or "Dutch style." They are traditionally styled yet contemporary, with good details and nice tilt/turn windows. The streets are, of course, clay pavers.
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My column: A Montreal company is building greenhouses on unused building rooftops. They now grow 200,000 vegetables per week. Their newest greenhouse is on a Walmart. If this was done just to Walmarts, Canada would cut its annual vegetable imports by 15%. https://t.co/6ybDGd8nRC
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Great news for our downtown
The NorQuest College Career Skills Centre has received $4 million in Alberta Budget 2025. Read the full news release: https://t.co/CAMVBkTMDr
#NorQuestCollege
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