The Rise and Sprawl

After a little over six years at this address, The Rise and Sprawl is now on Tumblr. And all future posts can be viewed at: http://riseandsp...

It has been argued both on this blog and in a piece in The Uniter , that parking minimums--that is the minimum number of off-street parking...

Coming up on Sunday, February 13, 2011 CKUW 95.9 FM and The Uniter will present: Winnipeg: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , a panel discu...

Tune in to UMFM (101.5 FM) this afternoon at 5:00 pm for the second ever Winnipeg Internet Pundits program. Today, host Tessa Vanderhart, m...

More with the year-end navel-gazing, here, with the help of Google Analytics, are some of the keywords with which visitors stumbled upon thi...

A string of pedestrian accidents, including three fatalities, occurred over Christmastime in Winnipeg, prompting calls for some kind of off...

In 2010, The Rise and Sprawl has perhaps been a little slower in content than in the blog's previous five years, with much of my writing...

The least expensive way to develop new condominium housing is to take existing apartment blocks and convert them to condos. Already more or ...

"Chinatown was mobbed Wednesday night by youngsters wanting to see a Victoria Day fireworks display. More people converged on King st. ...

EPC just approved the demolition of the Coronation/Shanghai Restaurant building, provided some kind of credible plan for a geriatric ward ca...

Nothing like an assisted living complex designed by a McArchitect to make Chinatown an exciting place! I love how the City's Property an...

We'll see what becomes of this bright idea. Menu from the Shanghai Restaurant, dated 1954. The restaurant had opened at its location at...

Last week I had a piece in The Uniter on Winnipeg's parking minimum requirements set forth in pages 112-119 of the Winnipeg Zoning By-l...

Great news--a corner grocery store is set to open in the Exchange District, on McDermot Avenue between Main and Albert. Around the corner o...

"Let not the needy... be forgotten Nor the hope of the poor be taken away." - Anglican Book of Common Prayer The recent result of ...