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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Photo du Jour: Clearly this calls for a smoke machine

    It ain’t called the “Quartier des Spectacles” for nothing…

  • Photo du Jour : Game Seven

    A small crowd gathers around a sidewalk TV in front of Dépanneur Primo, on the corner of Villeneuve and Saint-Urbain, as the Canadiens and the Bruins take...

  • Street, Avenue, Crescent, Parade

    We are all familiar with terms like street, avenue and crescent, but across the country there are apparently 165 different words to identify the roads we...

  • Photo du Jour: Flock of Cranes

    According to the Gazette, the construction of the MUHC’s new Glen campus will set a record for the highest concentration of construction cranes in Quebec.

  • Photo du Jour : More Domes!

    Behind the domed minaret of the Mosquée Al-Omah Al-Islamiah, the SAT’s Sensorium ads a curious new point-de-repère to the cityscape. The SAT’s...

  • Photo du Jour: Springtime Scars

    Ah, the first days of spring: the snow melts, revealing a season’s worth of litter, and all the street furniture bears the battlescars from the long...

  • Are we “Too Montreal” for the Conservatives?

    “Montréal! Tu n’es qu’une salope Et tu manipules le jeu” — Xavier Caféine There was once a legend, concocted deep in the countryside of...

  • Our Founding Mothers and Fathers

    Gerald Tremblay and the city of Montreal has moved to officially recognize Jeanne Mance as a co-founder of the City of Montreal, along with Paul de...

  • A Highway Waiting to Happen

    A thick white stripe across the Eastern side of Laval marks the embryo of autoroute 25. It’s come quite a way since Spring 2009. After 3 years of...

  • Space Ooze in the 21st century

    So this is embarrassing but it must be admitted: I am only just now reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. And sure enough...

  • Camping en Ville?

    After contemplating the paucity of campfires in the city last week, I was excited to come home to news of the possibility of developing urban campsites...

  • Playing with Fire

    The 17-year old girl stared in fascination at the flames. “I’ve never seen a fire like this before,” she told me. This was last week...