Communication
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Walk the Region : Méditation sur l’île aux Fesses
Ce billet est contribué par Laurent Lussier, diplômé en urbanisme, qui a participé à Walk the Region/Ville, Banlieue, Campagne en juillet 2011. Lors...
By Spacing -
Walk the region: Laval à l’image de Montréal
Lorsqu’on marche Laval de long en large, on se rend compte que plusieurs des préjugés sur l’île Jésus sont erronés. Premièrement, il n’y...
By Joel Thibert -
Walk the Region: “Danger extrème” à Laval!
One of the challenges of Walk the Region, the 3-day journey across Montreal’s Metropolitan Region, has been finding places to spend the night that...
By Alanah Heffez -
So close to the warmth of a Quebec summer…
I couldn’t resist posting this 1970s ad by the Québec tourism department, scanned from an old National Geographic magazine. “Discover the...
By Alanah Heffez -
“I wish this was” in St-Raymond
Looking for an innovative way to get people dreaming about their neighbourhood, McGill researchers took a hint from a whimsical artist and urban designer...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour : Le transport actif
Grafitti in the laneway between Fairmount and Clermont, in Mile-End.
By Devin Alfaro -
Photo du jour : John Spencer
Maybe the best lost cat poster ever. Seen all over Mile-End.
By Devin Alfaro -
Bixi ad backlash
The third season of the Bixi bike sharing program has started with a few changes. More docking stations have been added to four more neighbourhoods...
By Chris Erb -
Saint-Pierre River Site to Become Montreal’s first Woonerf
The alleyway in Saint-Henri between Saint-Ambroise and Sainte-Marie streets, and between Côte Saint-Paul and de Courcelle, is somwhat of an anomaly...
By Alanah Heffez -
Street, Avenue, Crescent, Parade
We are all familiar with terms like street, avenue and crescent, but across the country there are apparently 165 different words to identify the roads we...
By Alanah Heffez -
Fictions illustrées pour imaginer la ville autrement
Collaboration spéciale: Victor Locuratolo a une formation en architecture/urbanisme. Après avoir exercé à Montréal et en France dans ce domaine pendant...
By Spacing -
La puck de Berri comme repère géographique évocateur pour les jeunes montréalais
Ce billet est une contribution spéciale de Jean Desjardins, résident de Villeray, historien et enseignant d’histoire et géographie à la Commission...
By Jean Desjardins