The Desk

The Atlas Meadowlark Park settles the question of scale in one walk. Go east from your front door and the street runs out at the shopping centre half ...

The Atlas Mayfair is a hundred and fifty-six houses between Elbow Drive and the water, and it takes about eleven minutes to walk the whole of it. The ...

The Atlas Manchester was built for people who walked to work, and the walk still explains the place. A few blocks of small houses sit inside a ring ...

The Atlas Highwood keeps a swimming pool. An outdoor pool, run by the community association rather than the City, and on the first warm week of June ...

The Atlas Greenview is a small piece of the northeast with a very large clubhouse. The association building on Centre Street holds an arena, a ...

The Atlas Cambrian Heights sits between two of the largest pieces of ground the city owns, and you learn that with a stroller. Nose Hill rises across ...

The Atlas Bel-Aire is 159 houses on a bank above the water, and the count is the first thing you feel. You meet the same dozen people walking. A golf ...

The Atlas Eau Claire hands you the river first and the rest afterward. You are a block from the Bow and four minutes on foot from an island with ...

The Atlas You meet Bankview on the way up. Fourteenth Street climbs out of the valley and the grid tilts with it, so the walk back from the bus is a ...

The Atlas You learn Chinatown at street level and then again one floor up. The ground floors are what the city sees, the barbecue windows, the ...

The Atlas Living in the core means learning the building before you learn the block. Your address is a floor number. Your commute is an elevator and ...

The Atlas The West End is the part of downtown that goes home. East of you the towers empty at six. Here the lights come on. Sixth Avenue carries ...

The Atlas You will learn Garrison Woods by its street signs before you learn it by its blocks. Somme. Ypres. Vimy. Passchendaele. Amiens. The army ...

The Atlas Rideau Park is held on three sides by the same river. The Elbow comes around the bend and the community sits inside it, on a shelf of ...

The Atlas Roxboro is 169 lots inside a river bend, and there is nothing in it to buy. No shop holds a business licence inside the boundary. No park ...

The Atlas Scarboro teaches you to walk it before you can drive it. The streets curve, the numbers stop helping, and the first month goes into ...

The Beat The route the committee chose On September 8 2026, Calgary's Executive Committee voted to recommend that Council pick Option 3, the 10 ...