Impromptu green spaces. Caused by fires on derelict properties which cause them to be torn down and a patch of dirt in between houses is all that is left.
The word Winnipeg comes from the Cree words “Win,” meaning muddy, and “Nippee,” for water.
Garbage Hill
Garbage Hill ii
Densify and Gentrify
I got to take a photo of this place before it’s torn down. Nothing is set in stone but I just have a feeling.
In urban circles and just talk about North America cities, you always hear about the missing middle but it always impresses me how much middle housing, Winnipeg has got. (For clarity, middle housing is housing that is anything in between a single family home and an apartment tower. Many cities across North America are missing the in between, the middle housing.)
The backyard of the house my parents and aunt and uncle and uncle’s mom (my grandma in law?) live in. Its both a physically beautiful home, exemlified by this photo of their backyard, but also its beautiful that all of these people in my life are committed to living in a multi family, multi generation, intentional community.
HONK 4 FREEDOM
A view from my partner’s home. Vimy Ridge park in the summer is wonderful.
Critical Mass
Critical Mass ii
Collaborative art piece done with my partner up on the wall.
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Winnipeg actually has the highest concentration of pre-war apartment blocks in Canada (also the highest %age of pre-war buildings in general). It's one of my favourite things about the city's built form and one that I'm immediately drawn to when wandering around. Probably because they're not very common in Alberta. The only other Western cities that have many of them are Vancouver and Regina (which came as a shock to me), but it's not quite to the level of Winnipeg. Even Toronto doesn't really have that many because its early WASP settlers wanted to preserve an aesthetic of pastoralism in the city, hence the prototypical Toronto residential form being the Victorian Bay-and-Gable. Home still stacked tightly together, and often multi-unit, but denoting a sense of a semi-detached house, rather than Montreal's triplex, New York's tenements, Philly's rowhomes, or Chicago's 3-flat.
Winnipeg actually has the highest concentration of pre-war apartment blocks in Canada (also the highest %age of pre-war buildings in general). It's one of my favourite things about the city's built form and one that I'm immediately drawn to when wandering around. Probably because they're not very common in Alberta. The only other Western cities that have many of them are Vancouver and Regina (which came as a shock to me), but it's not quite to the level of Winnipeg. Even Toronto doesn't really have that many because its early WASP settlers wanted to preserve an aesthetic of pastoralism in the city, hence the prototypical Toronto residential form being the Victorian Bay-and-Gable. Home still stacked tightly together, and often multi-unit, but denoting a sense of a semi-detached house, rather than Montreal's triplex, New York's tenements, Philly's rowhomes, or Chicago's 3-flat.