Dateline: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Athabasca Tar Sands are not the topic of the conference (on urbanism) that I am attending but oil, I suspect, is financing it, as it finances pretty-much everything here. The subject of the meeting is the expansion of the University of Calgary into a now-undeveloped part of the City of Calgary known as the East Village. It's an interesting situation and raises again the question of how institutional buildings can be good urban neighbors.