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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By KC Bolton

  • Event: Hitting the Benchmark

    Hitting the Benchmark is a student-driven project about sustainable urban design that was awarded a Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) grant from McGill...

  • A ride on the 747

    STM’s direct bus link between downtown and the airport has arrived none too soon. The former route’s multiple confusing transfers (one of which was so...

  • Who are those cyclists, anyways?

    In a response to Saturday’s Gazette article on the city’s car-bike-pedestrian power struggle, a reader asked: “Enough of this story. When was the last...

  • Villeray’s piéton vert

    A few days ago spray-painted footsteps appeared at intersections in the south-west part of Villeray, with the stencil “Réclamez un passage.”...

  • The diciest part of my commute

    Over the past few months I’ve come to know the Boul. St. Laurent underpass between the Mile End and Little Italy quite well, adjacent to the parc...

  • Photo du jour – Pink Blossoms

    Every spring these trees show large pink blossoms. This particular one is in front of an auberge across from the Lucien L’Allier metro entrance...

  • Photo du jour – Ste. Catherine eve

    The moon rising over Ste. Catherine on a May evening.

  • Photo du jour – CCA turns twenty

    The Canadian Centre for Architecture celebrated its 20th anniversary on Saturday. This floating chair is in the CCA Garden, where Melvin Charney’s...

  • Photo du jour – Ste. Cécile Church

    Contruction on Villeray’s Ste. Cécile Church was completed in 1924.

  • The annual march against police brutality

    Police making their way up de Pins. This photo courtesy of Benoit Falardeau By now anyone paying attention to the news knows that there was a...

  • Engaging surveillance with Bill Brown

    Bill Brown warned us that the Complexe Desjardins security staff may disband his Discovering the Unmonitored Underground City workshop. Unauthorized...

  • CCA hosts a guided tour of urban surveillance in Montreal

    This weekend Bill Brown of the Surveillance Camera Players will give a tour of surveillance cameras in downtown Montreal entitled Discovering the...