Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Feeling the Region in our Feet
Last weekend, I took part in Walk the Region, a journey on foot Pointe-Aux-Anglais, in Oka, to Sainte-Hilaire, in an attempt to understand what the heck...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour : le Châtelet
A housing coop located on Avenue du Parc between St-Viateur and Fairmount. Built between 1904 and 1912 the building was originally a private apartment...
By Devin Alfaro -
Walk the region: Laval à l’image de Montréal
Lorsqu’on marche Laval de long en large, on se rend compte que plusieurs des préjugés sur l’île Jésus sont erronés. Premièrement, il n’y...
By Joel Thibert -
Walk the Region: “Danger extrème” à Laval!
One of the challenges of Walk the Region, the 3-day journey across Montreal’s Metropolitan Region, has been finding places to spend the night that...
By Alanah Heffez -
The Regionalist: Why we need a regional plan
The council of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) has released in May the first draft of its regional planning and development plan for the...
By Joel Thibert -
Countdown to Walk the Region
The idea took root last December during IPAM’s citizen agora on Metropolitan Planning. After two days of studying the map of Montreal’s...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour: an angel among us
When I discovered Tam Tams, to my great delight, at the age of 13 or so, I remember dozens and dozens of drummers vying for spots the steps of the...
By Alanah Heffez -
Le MTQ peut-il s’inspirer de la gestion des entraves dans le Quartier des spectacles?
Le projet du Quartier des spectacles jouit d’une très grande visibilité, ce qui fait sorte que le moindre problème de gestion, de coordination ou de...
By Joel Thibert -
A new exhibit celebrates Montreal, UNESCO City of Design
You wake up and pour yourself a glass of Ovopur filtered water. Then, you don your new Philippe Dubuc shirt and trousers. An Aribus STM shelter protects...
By Natascia Lypny -
“I wish this was” in St-Raymond
Looking for an innovative way to get people dreaming about their neighbourhood, McGill researchers took a hint from a whimsical artist and urban designer...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour : Le transport actif
Grafitti in the laneway between Fairmount and Clermont, in Mile-End.
By Devin Alfaro -
The Regionalist: Does Montreal Need a Belt?
The analogy of the “belt” which is used to describe the way in which cities around the round have tried to contain and/or manage urban growth...
By Joel Thibert