Photo du jour: Nun’s Island from afar

4 comments

1. Very creepy. I can remember when you looked at Nun’s Island from the Verdun waterfront and all you saw was trees. A group from McGill I think it was once concluded that the development of Nun’s Island was one of the greatest ecological mistakes in the area. When I see this I think of the proposed Griffintown project and it just looks worse and worse, a kind of Nun’s Island, only more cynical, generic, uniform, nah, it’s more like revenge.

2. I think you’re exaggerating a bit. Nun’s Island is a completely suburban, car-oriented collection of condo towers, townhouses and detached single-family houses surrounded on loopy, disconnected streets. The Griffintown plan, as flawed as it might be, is at least urban, transit-oriented and mixed-use.

3. I am looking at it from the long lens view like the picture above. It doesn’t squeeze very nicely (smile).

4. Seems to me that the ongoing development on Nun’s Island is worthy of more in-depth consideration. It has something to say about how “les nantis” like to live, and the plans for the northern tip are as ambitious as those for Griffintown. Compared with what Google Maps shows, it’s amazing how much development/devastation has occured even quite recently both at the northern tip and the southern tip with its “eco-golf course.”

   Shouldn’t this fall in the Verdun category as well?