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On The Atlantic Cities, Seattle architect Daniel Toole speaks about his passion for alleyways. These out-of-the-way infrastructure corridors, he argues, can pull together communities, improve service delivery and add colour to city-dwelling.
Image from The Atlantic Cities
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Montreal needs this message too:
Before midnight, Feb. 29, 2012, Vote for
http://www.cip-icu.ca/greatplaces/en/place.asp?id=6028
and
http://www.cip-icu.ca/greatplaces/en/place.asp?id=6025
in the “Great Places in Canada” contest. Let the country know we need to save these spaces: for ourselves and our fellow beings.
Sincerely,
Gwen Gall, Sunnyside Avenue, Ottawa