By Alanah Heffez

A view from Plaza Saint Hubert

It maybe a little late, but happy New Year folks. To me, the new year brings a new job, a new office on St-Hubert up near St-Zotique and, by extension, a...

Photo du Jour : Buskers Unite

A poster seen last Tuesday in Bonaventure metro announces the Annual General Assembly of the “Regroupement des Musiciens du Metro de...

Photo du Jour – Pic et Pelle

Germain Bergeron’s sculpture at Monk metro station, entitled Pic et Pelle, pays homage to all the construction workers who contributed to building...

Photo du Jour – Métro Saint-Henri

Maintenant que la neige et le froid m’empêchent de me promener au vélo, je redécouvre toutes les stations de métro. Mais mes sincères félicitations...

Mont Royal Ave’s first flirtation with pedestrianization

Summer 1970: Montreal’s first mall. Not the suburban kind of mall we’ve grown to dread, but a pedestrian shopping area in the heart of the...

Photo du Jour – Reindeer?

Just a quick note to say thanks to all our readers, especially those who take the time to share your thoughts, memories, critiques and inspirations on the...

Photo du Jour – La plaza St-Hubert en lumières

Privatize the Lafontaine pavilion and fence off the lookout?

I like that the Plateau’s new Borough Mayor, Luc Ferrandez, has kept his blog. I love that he recaps his various mayoral duties and meetings in...

Coups de Coeur: Michel Tremblay’s Grosse femme d’à coté

Image: Rue Fabre près de Laurier cc François Hogue In the early nineties, my dad lived on Rue Fabre, just above Avenue Mont Royal. He was working a day...

Just a Beautiful Place?

Urban economics guru Richard Florida recently set out to discover just how important physical aesthetics are when people choose a place to live (study...

Pigeon Toes + Wet Cement

“City pigeons are the product of domestication – but exist somewhere between tame and wild. Their traces in wet cement remind us that human and...

Montreal’s Main is one great street

Saint-Laurent boulevard tops a recent list of 9 great streets around the world created by NYC-based Project for Public Spaces. The Main is described as a...