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- W228647714 abstract "Iqaluit Core Area and Capital District Redevelopment Plan—Nunavut, Canada Office for Urbanism, FoTenn, Laird & Associates, and the City of Iqaluit There is a certain degree of fashion today associated with harsh, hard-to-get-to landscapes. With scenic, easily acces- sible locations filling rapidly with retirees, lifestyle trans- plants, and Richard Florida’s “creative class,” it can seem as if the gentle and reposeful landscapes romanticized in centuries past are now as passe as the strip mall. 1 This may be why in locations such as the Mountain West, inacces- The stark, often beautiful Arctic landscape provides the setting for the City of Iqaluit, capital of Canada’s Nunavut Province. sibility has become a selling point to the very rich, and why a full-page article in the “House & Home” section of The New York Times even celebrated life amid the still-forming lava fields of Hawaii. 2 Yet as activists, writers and researchers from Edward Abbey to Marc Reisner have pointed out, choosing to live in a harsh climate requires more than rhetoric and fashion sense. 3 At some point, sumptuous travel literature and modish design photography must be set aside, and the dif- ficult business begins of figuring out how, exactly, twenty- Iqaluit Core Area and Capital District Plan—Jury Comments Harris: I thought this was really kind of astounding. It’s the commission you ought to turn down because it’s so challenging. When you first go to the site you would be in such despair I don’t know how you would continue. And it involves the toughest kind of questions about how a community that doesn’t have any kind of town background is now forced to be in a town. It’s very serious and tough work. Vale: I thought this was a fascinating commission. It’s because Nunavut was named a province that you need to have a provincial capital, which means you have to deal with things like ceremonial visits of the queen, and you need to think through what it means to have a kind of formal and hierarchical built environment. My sense was that the consultants were engaging with those kinds of social and cultural issues in a pretty sensitive way. And they realized that the alternative was to just have the buildings sprawl randomly out into Office for Urbanism, FoTenn, Laird & Assoc. and Iqaluit / Iqaluit Core Area" @default.
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