Community / Communauté

Love + Bixi

« L’amour n’a point d’âge : il est toujours naissant » – Blaise Pascal Bixi has become the new church hall, the new town square...

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.”...

Photo du Jour : Sunday Ritual

Big Bang Planning vs Emergent Urbanism

Architect and urban planner William Galloway recently wrote an op-ed piece at Archinet entitled “Big Bangs, Slums, and Suburbia” (via...

Photo du Jour : Chinatown Candyman

Photo taken on July 11th, 2009, rue de la Gauchetière.

Habitat 67 Hangs 10 : Surfing In Montreal

Featured in an interesting article in the New York Times today, Habitat 67’s surfing culture is finally exposed! The article pleasantly describes...

Rents, Recycling Buildings and Retailing Books

This article and photos are a special guest contribution by local author, Mary Soderstrom. Mary Soderstrom is a Montreal writer who’s spent years...

Photo du Jour – Jazz fest crowd

Jazz festival crowd on the steps of Place des Arts. Photo taken July 4th, 2009 by Spacing Montreal flickr pooler, pasdecouleur.

Les punaises de lit

« Je m’appelle Corinne D. J’ai 28 ans et je vis à Montréal. J’ai eu des punaises de lit chez moi. Deux fois. » – Corinne D. du blog « La Cibole de Cimex »

Photo du Jour : Viger square fashion shoot

Photo taken June 18th 2009 in Viger Square.

Teens in public space: when the world is your junglegym

The thing to do on prom night 1998 was to take the rented limo up to the lookout on Mount-Royal after a soirée of underage bar-hopping to see the sun...

Le parc sans nom toujours abandonné

Un an après le centre d’artistes Dare-Dare a quitté le Mile-End pour s’établir au square Cabot, le fameux parc sans nom reste toujours...