Green Space / Espace vert
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Au lancement de « Montréal et l’eau, une histoire environnementale » par Michèle Dagenais
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 -
Pour des espaces publics inclusifs dans Sainte-Marie
Ce billet est contribué par Marie-Sophie Banville. Elle trouve son compte quelque part entre les études féministes, la science politique et...
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Moins d’automobiles et plus de déplacements verts sur le Plateau-Est
Une collaboration spéciale de Julien Cayer. Mercredi matin, le Plateau-Est a emboité le pas aux arrondissements de Mercier-Est et de Parc-Extension en se...
By Spacing -
Space Ooze in the 21st century
So this is embarrassing but it must be admitted: I am only just now reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. And sure enough...
By Alanah Heffez -
Anywhere but Meadowbrook?
Never, in my experience, has a proposed condo development received so much praise. Suzanne Deschamps presented the Petite Rivière project at UQAM...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour: A Murder of Crows in Saint-Henri
When you see them gathered by the thousands, blackening treetops for blocks, it is no wonder that crows were given such a ominous group-noun, a murder...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Flocks
I don’t love pigeons but I do like the way they move. I like the sound of beating wings and the way they circle about aimlessly, yet seem perfectly...
By Alanah Heffez -
Joyeux Noel – Happy Christmas!
It was lovely to see so many merry people enjoying the view, the snowy slopes and the sleigh rides atop Mount Royal this afternoon. Thanks once again for...
By Alanah Heffez -
Losing sight of the highway for the green: Understanding the “new” Turcot plan
Welcome to Portland boul. Notre-Dame In the face of harsh critiques from just about every imaginable governmental and non-governmental body in the...
By Jacob Larsen -
Down to the river to play
« En suivant le fleuve, on parvient à la mer. » – Plaute J’oublie souvent l’existence de notre fleuve ; j’avoue. Et pourtant, il...
By Émile Thomas -
Jean-Dominic Lévesque-René
« Gotta tell you what I heard / From Agent Orange » – Tori Amos À la suite du décès de M. Jacques Cardinal, conseiller de l’arrondissement de...
By Émile Thomas -
The death of a climbing tree
I came home from a weekend of camping to learn that Westmount Park willow had fallen. It was a heavy storm last Tuesday that finally bent the old tree to...
By Alanah Heffez