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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Christopher DeWolf

  • Photo du jour: Rush Hour

    Waiting to cross. Victoria and Van Horne. February 22, 2006

  • Photo du jour: Park Avenue

    Sunset. Park near St. Viateur. May 22, 2007.

  • Mile End’s manhole covers: the mystery is solved!

    Last month I asked if anyone knew who was painting the manhole covers of Mile End. Slowly but surely, readers started offering some leads. One mentioned...

  • Photo du jour: Restaurant For Sale

    “Restaurant For Sale.” La Gauchetière and St. Urbain. May 10, 2005.

  • Mozart, Dante and Molière

    Whenever I head up to Little Italy, on my way for a coffee at Caffè Italia or some gelato at the Jean Talon Market, I wonder about Dante Street, a fairly...

  • Photo du jour: Open Da Night

    Café Olimpico. St. Viateur and Waverly. June 11, 2006

  • Follow the sharrows

    Counterflow bike lane on Milton Street, near Lorne Avenue A couple of days ago, Dale Duncan wrote on Spacing Toronto about sharrows, or shared road...

  • Phillips Square

    Phillips Square, it has always seemed to me, is inexplicably overlooked. In theory, it should be one of Montreal’s most prominent public spaces...

  • Montreal’s vanished newsstands

    Kate McDonnell snapped this photo of a newsstand at Pine and St. Laurent in 1991. Back then, it was one of three remaining outdoor news kiosks in...

  • Where is the West Island?

    Every Montrealer knows that the West Island is not, in fact, an island unto itself: it is simply the westernmost part of Montreal Island, a collection of...

  • Lessons learned from Just for Laughs

    Every year, I head down to Just for Laughs. Not for the comedy, but for the festival site, which takes over the entire Latin Quarter and makes brilliant...

  • Who is painting the manhole covers?

    I’m not just asking — I really want to know. Over the past month, somebody has painted dozens of manhole covers around Mile End, on Park...