Neighbourhoods / Quartiers

Quartier des spectacles: Entre vision et réalité /
Entre traversée magique et gazon mort

L’homme sur cette photo est à la croisée de deux chemins. Le premier, blanc et enchanteur, est né du travail des designers derrière ce nouvel espace du...

Close a street, open a neighbourhood

August begins and construction continues on boulevard St-Joseph, preventing commuters from heading south on rue St-Urbain. The plan: Replace aging water...

The Regionalist: Recreation Beyond Degradation

I recently came upon a fascinating book titled “The ecological basis of planning”, which is basically a series of essays about the...

Photo du jour: asiatisation d’une ruelle

On coure les ruelles de la Petite Patrie cet été. À la tombée du jour le 17 juillet passé, l’arrière de ce bloc appartement nous semblait luire de...

Photo du jour: Saint-Henri accueille ses nouveaux arrivants

Photo du jour: triptyque architectural

Photo du jour: bâtisse anti-syndicale à louer

Le commerce qui deviendra locataire de l’ancien Couche-Tard du coin Beaubien et Saint-Denis n’aura probablement pas à composer avec la...

Photo du jour: Connecting the arrows >>

The Regionalist: Do we need a new “new regionalism”?

So it looks like the real reason IQT Solutions shut down its Laval operation (in addition to its operations in Trois-Rivières and Oshawa) and put 450...

“Mixité sociale” in defence of gentrification

The Ville-Marie borough’s decision to approve a 300-unit condo project in the Centre-Sud is creating controversy. The project, to be built on the...

Photo du jour: Summertime and the living is ice cream

Dairy Queens and gas stations prove popular summer hangouts for Montrealers young and old. Kind of reminds me of my teenage years spent in suburban...

Walk the Region: Density, Proximity, Intricacy, Intimacy

When I began blogging about Walk the Region a couple weeks ago, I was pretty honest about my revulsion towards places like Laval and the Dix30, although I...