Housing / Logement
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What happened to rue St-Norbert?
My friend recently picked up a copy of the book “Picture this! Posters of Social Movements in Québec (1966-2007)“. While leafing through the...
By Chris Erb -
The Art of Persuasion: Combatting Suburban Flight
Last September on this site, we mentioned the City of Montreal’s advertising efforts to stem the tide of people fleeing the island for the fool’s gold of...
By Olivier Plessis -
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 -
Montreal’s shoebox/hobbit houses
I’ve always been curious about the flat-roofed one-storey houses that are sprinkled throughout many of Montreal’s neighbourhoods. Rather than...
By Christopher DeWolf -
“As a second car, consider a duplex”
Despite a whole lot of urban residential development projects lately, Montreal is still losing about 20,000 young people to the surrounding suburbs each...
By Alanah Heffez -
Mapping the Commute: Income and Driving to work
In the spirit of Monday’s car-free day, this post asks the question: are those who earn higher incomes more likely to drive to work? Using 2006 Canadian...
By KC Bolton -
Le faubourg à m’lasse
Vers 1925 Surnommé le faubourg à m’lasse, le quartier où se situe maintenant la tour de Radio-Canada comptait vers 1880 plus de 16 000 habitants. Ce...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
The Linked Hybrid in Beijing
BEIJING, CHINA — Last weekend, I was given a tour of the Linked Hybrid’s construction site out in Dongzhimen, to the northeast of Central Beijing...
By Cédric Sam -
Un “parc linéaire” au dessus de l’autoroute Notre-Dame
plan tiré de www.projetnotredame.qc.ca Tel qu’annoncé en décembre dernier, la société Radio Canada considère un projet immobilier de 1500 à 2000...
By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -
Montreal housing under the microscope
Image by Sasha Plotnikova for The McGill Daily The McGill Daily’s special issue on Housing is on newsstands and they’ve invented a new word...
By Misha Warbanski -
Stefan Ohrhallinger builds another igloo
Stefan Ohrhallinger, the Concordia PhD student who made headlines in the Journal de Montréal last month for building an igloo on Mount Royal, has done it...
By Christopher DeWolf -
An east end expedition in Mercier
In November, as the season’s last leaves fell from the trees, I took the metro out to the east end for an afternoon stroll around Mercier. I...
By Christopher DeWolf