Civic Engagement / Engagement citoyen
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IPAM sets the stage for more inclusive long-term planning
Just when Montreal was in need of a superhero, the Institut de Politiques Alternatives de Montreal enters the scene with an all-star team to tackle urban...
By Alanah Heffez -
Executive Committee OKs Main Makeover Despite OCPM Recommendation
St Lawrence and Ste Catherine street, 1905. Source: Mccord Museum. “We have to move forward,” said Catherine Sévigny, the executive committee...
By Alanah Heffez -
Slow Down, Quadrilatère Saint-Laurent
The Public Consultation Bureau of Montreal has finally released their report and recommendations following the deposition of over 30 memoirs and a...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour : Buldozed Slum
I rarely venture into the northern part of the island, and on a trip along Boul Henri Bourassa last week I was surprised to find an entire city block...
By Alanah Heffez -
The latest on the Lower Main
Spacing commentor Louis Rastelli called me out on this one: it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to critique the plans for 2-22 Ste-Catherine East...
By Alanah Heffez -
Mile End Citizens Take Participatory Planning into their Own Hands
About 130 residents came together in Mile End last Sunday to pen a collective vision for the future of their neighbourhood during a Forum organized by...
By Alanah Heffez -
To street food or not to street food?
Street food in Kenting, Taiwan So, that is the question. Montreal finally got its preview of summer, but street food in the shape of moving carts selling...
By Cédric Sam -
Montreal will have the greenest highway ever
rue Cazelais before rue Cazelais after The MTQ released its latest renderings on the future Turcot interchange for the first BAPE information session...
By Jacob Larsen -
What Montreal can learn from Cleveland
Source: MTQ I was reading recently about Cleveland’s efforts in the 1970s to stop a county-planned highway from tearing a giant swath through one of...
By Jacob Larsen -
Bassins du Nouveau Havre goes to Consultation
There was some lively debate on this blog back in November when the plans for the old Canada Post site in Pointe-St-Charles (site tri-postal) were...
By Alanah Heffez -
Devimco to scale back Griffintown Project
An older mockup of the Projet-Griffintown plan proposed by Devimco last year. Yesterday, The Gazette reported that Devimco, the company that gained...
By Chris Erb -
Public Consultation for CN yards in Pointe St Charles
The Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal is opening a second round of consultations about the redevelopment of old CN yards in Pointe St. Charles...
By Alanah Heffez