Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Place-Based Election Posters
Despite the general feelings of aggravation at being faced with yet another election this fall, this poster for Green Party candidate Peter McQueen...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour: Little boxes
One of a bunch of housing tracts that have sprung up around the Quartier Dix30 mall in Brossard. Photo taken July 12, 2007.
By Chris Erb -
Photo du jour – Les mégots et les gommes, c’est assez!
Part of a city campaign against litter. Photo of stencil (and gum) taken at de la Gauchetière O and de la Cathédrale.
By KC Bolton -
Doubling the downtown population, with the private-sector
Of the 864 census tracts in the Montreal Metropolitan Area, only three doubled their populations between 2001 and 2006. Two of the three cover areas in...
By KC Bolton -
In absentia maps Mile End stories
in absentia, a web-based art project presented by Dare-Dare, reads as a cross between a map and a novel. When you have lived in a place for long enough...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – No Fear
I love this graffiti message by the bike path on de Maisonneuve in NDG.
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Football Fans
The roar of the Molson Stadium crowd (bottom left-hand corner) was clearly audible from the Belvedere lookout point at last Sunday. A little further East...
By Alanah Heffez -
Public Online Forum to Inspire Bellechasse PPU
Rosemont-Petite-Patrie is creating a Plan Particulier d’Urbanisme (PPU) for the Bellechasse sector, bordered by St-Laurent, St-Denis, Bellechasse...
By Alanah Heffez -
Growing Pains in Suburbia
The main entrance into Cote-Saint-Luc, a city of 30 000 inhabitants surrounded on all sides by train-tracks is through the Cavendish underpass. This...
By Michael Dunkelman -
Photo du Jour – Book Case
Bargain bins outside Pages Bookstore, on St-Jacques, across from Lionel Groulx metro. The cozy neighbourhood second-hand bookstore also features comfy...
By Alanah Heffez -
Montreal – the cutting edge of recorded music since 1900
Park Emile-Berliner (1851-?). Inventeur du gramophone et du disque. How did a tiny corner park in St-Henri end up dedicated to the inventor of the...
By Alanah Heffez -
Un tramway rue Sainte-Catherine ?
Comme en font foi ces photos prises sur la rue Sainte-Catherine, les rails de l’ancien tramway de Montréal n’ont pas tout à fait été rayés de...
By Cédric Sam