By Alanah Heffez
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Jane Jacobs on Toronto and Montreal development trends circa 1969
This is a must see clip in which CBC TV’s “The Way It Is” interviewed Jane Jacobs about development trends in Toronto and Montreal...
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How to Care for your Concrete City
Usually docile and well behaved, it feels like lately many of our city’s concrete beasts have turned vicious over the summer. Bridges are closed...
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Photo du Jour: Balcon-fête
Saturday evening on Lower Crescent street during a heat wave.
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Spacing Road Show visits Montreal: tacos, wine and urbanism on the street
The Spacing Road Show touched down in Montreal last night, on the cross-country road trip to launch the Pan-Canadian magazine. What a great turnout! Our...
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Walk the Region: Density, Proximity, Intricacy, Intimacy
When I began blogging about Walk the Region a couple weeks ago, I was pretty honest about my revulsion towards places like Laval and the Dix30, although I...
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Feeling the Region in our Feet
Last weekend, I took part in Walk the Region, a journey on foot Pointe-Aux-Anglais, in Oka, to Sainte-Hilaire, in an attempt to understand what the heck...
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Walk the Region: “Danger extrème” à Laval!
One of the challenges of Walk the Region, the 3-day journey across Montreal’s Metropolitan Region, has been finding places to spend the night that...
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Celebrating Montreal Moving Day…Since 1750
Newcomers to Montreal often remark that July 1st Moving Day rush is nonsensical. But I’m pleased to say that this tradition is rooted in 260 years...
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Countdown to Walk the Region
The idea took root last December during IPAM’s citizen agora on Metropolitan Planning. After two days of studying the map of Montreal’s...
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Photo du jour: an angel among us
When I discovered Tam Tams, to my great delight, at the age of 13 or so, I remember dozens and dozens of drummers vying for spots the steps of the...
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So close to the warmth of a Quebec summer…
I couldn’t resist posting this 1970s ad by the Québec tourism department, scanned from an old National Geographic magazine. “Discover the...
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Photo du Jour: Hula hooping
Ah, summer in the city: that glorious combination of togetherness and wtf?