Neighbourhoods / Quartiers

Photo du jour : Graffiti Clark

« L’art de peindre n’est que l’art d’exprimer l’invisible par le visible. » – Eugène Fromentin sur la rue Clark entre...

How My Father Sees the Mile End

This post is a guest contribution by Daniel Rotsztain, a student in Urban Geography who is originally from Toronto. My dad was born in the Mile End so I...

Photo du jour – Ruelle from Hell

Looking south down an alleyway on Duluth Avenue East between Hotel-de-Ville and Laval Avenues.

Photo du jour – Inside the Seville

Spring cleaning inside the former Seville Theatre on Rue Ste.Catherine.

Photo du jour : L’art public

Un oeuvre d’art à l’instar de « The Gates » de Christo et Jeanne-Claude à New York. Réalisé sur commande par le Comité artistique des cols...

Montreal’s disappearing rooming houses

Rooming houses on Tupper Street, in Shaughnessy Village After being viewed for decades as a symptom of urban decay, there is today a movement to recognise...

Coups de Coeur – Dramatik Shines a Light on Montreal North in l’Oubli

Forgive me for jumping on the bandwagon here, and posting the song L’Oubli by local artist Dramatik. In the music video, a business man gets a...

Réimaginons la rue St-Viateur, part 5 : Un appel lancé

« 6 000 miles of streets which are really the front yards and the front doors where New Yorkers come out to play. » – Janette Sadik-Khan And they...

Photo du jour: Bay Window

Bay Oriel window at the corner of Seymour and Tupper, in Shaughnessy Village.

Photo du jour – Square Viger

Sustainable Development for a Change

Downtown Montreal looks like so many Tonka trucks in a sandbox at the moment that it’s hard to tell who’s shoveling which dirt into what...

Montreal Pool Room to Cross the Street

Despite the recent backpeddling by the Société de Développement Angus, the Montreal Pool Room building was sold March 3rd. One certainly can’t blame...