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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Photo du jour: Acadian houses

    These houses at the bottom of L’Acadie Boulevard, right next to the metro station, have always struck me as a bit odd. They’re completely...

  • Photo du jour: Aiguisage Tony

    I still find it amazing that there is a knife sharpener who drives around the city playing ice-cream-truck music. June 10, 2008

  • Main walking tour this weekend

    WHAT? Walking tour of Mile End’s Main WHEN? Sunday, August 24th from 2pm to 5pm WHERE Buy tickets at St. Laurent and Marie-Anne today, tomorrow and...

  • From the NFB archives: 23 Skidoo

    23 Skidoo Julian Biggs, 1964, 8 min 12 sec “If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is what...

  • How much private involvement in our transit?

    Yesterday, La Presse revealed that the Agence métropolitaine de transport has awarded a private company a contract to operate two “luxury”...

  • Photo du jour: Crotch shot

    Urbania magazine has had some memorable covers over the years… St. Laurent near Guilbeault

  • Island life in Hong Kong

    HONG KONG — One of my favourite things about Hong Kong is its geographic diversity. In an area of just 1,100 square kilometres — about twice...

  • Photo du jour: Ad scooter

    Maybe the companies that run ad trucks down the city’s major streets finally realized how wasteful that was — it now seems that at least some...

  • Up the Yangtze encore at the Forum

    If you didn’t get a chance to catch Montreal filmmaker Yung Chang’s excellent documentary, Up the Yangtze, it will begin an encore run at the...

  • Photo du jour: Mikvah

    St. Urbain near Fairmount. July 11, 2008

  • “Hampstead still hates the environment”

    Back when areas like the Plateau were considered old, decrepit and nasty, rather than trendy and desirable, a number of affluent suburbs did all they...

  • Public underwear art battle on Thursday

    WHAT? Lunchtime art battle against cancer WHERE? Victoria Square WHEN? Thursday, August 14th, between noon and 2:30pm An underwear-themed “art...