Green Space / Espace vert
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Plage de l’Horloge opens this weekend
[youtube width=”600″ height=”473″]http://youtu.be/F2qCqV_00ms[/youtube] Having grown up on the East Coast, the word...
By Chris Erb -
The Forest, a Fortress, and the Future of Participation
Between the tree trunks, I can spot the traffic light at the corner of Cote-Saint-Catherine road. The outline of apartment buildings half a block away is...
By Alanah Heffez -
Fine Art in the Back Alley
Guest contribution by Michael O’Shea, adapted from Parks and Excavation blog. Last month, I spent a couple of hours in an alley with three circus...
By Spacing -
MTQ to Expropriate Schoolyard for Highway Construction
It may not be the most lush, nor the most welcoming patch of grass in the city, but it is none-the-less the school yard for 200 students who attend James...
By Alanah Heffez -
OCPM Announces Urban Agriculture Consultation
Montrealers asked for it, and the City of Montreal is delivering: the OCPM has announced a public consultation about Urban Agriculture from May 12th...
By Alanah Heffez -
Le goût de Montréal // Bouffe de rue : pour une approche systémique | Partie 2 – Plaidoyer et appel à tous
Vous n’avez pas lu la première partie de ce texte ? Cliquez ici. Vous y trouverez le contexte général de la cuisine de rue, autant ici qu’Ã...
By Jonathan Lapalme -
Water and citizenship
If you’re among the 50% of Montrealers who rent their homes, and the 38% of Montrealers who vote in municipal elections, you may have one extra...
By Alanah Heffez -
A Taste for the City: Urban Food Unconference
Spacing Montreal is teaming up with the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Avenue Huit to host an event exploring two of our favourite themes: food and...
By Alanah Heffez -
Mind the Marsh (Or how the CN-MTQ dispute may alter the future of the Turcot Interchange)
The buried Otter Lake occupied a good deal of the present-day Turcot Yards (courtesy of Walking Turcot Yards)Â The Ministry of Transport has hit a major...
By Jacob Larsen -
Photo du Jour : Noel à saveur de Montréal
A calèche trots along Beaubien, in front of the a bagel shop and a restaurant offering a mix of Hots Dogs, Souvlakis and Italian food. In the coming year...
By Alanah Heffez -
The Regionalist: Are cosmopolitanism and regionalism fundamentally at odds?
___ There is an apparent contradiction, some would say, between the philosophical/ethical regionalist stance and cosmopolitanism. Regionalism, after all...
By Joel Thibert -
NDG cyclists make the case for a safe connection
Source: Bing Maps NDG residents fed up with confusing, scary intersections take note: Tomorrow, your local cycling group will be meeting at Décarie and de...
By Jacob Larsen