Spacing Montreal

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...

By Alanah Heffez

Culture

Montréal Lit: Glory Days

Photo by chispita_666 Spacing Montreal is pleased to present this bi-weekly column exploring Montreal’s literary landscape, written by Gregory...

By Gregory McCormick

Community

Queue leu leu et autres incivilités

Constamment, des lignes humaines se superposent plus ou moins longuement à celles de la ville. Des traits continus à peine brisés qui surprennent par leur...

By Jonathan Lapalme

Bikes

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

Features

Spacing Saturday: Reallocating Laneways, Budapest Ubranism and Paddle the Don

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Vanessa Kay brings readers the...

By Marcus Bowman

Architecture

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

Features

World Wide Wednesday: Renegade infrastructure funding, Brazilian street art, ant planning

Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...

By Hilary Best

Features

Spacing Saturday: Walk the Region, Moving Day and the World’s Biggest Bike Share

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Spacing Saturday celebrates...

By Marcus Bowman

Architecture

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

Communication

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

History

Montage du jour : Le domaine Ogilvie

Vers 1940-1978-2011 Source : Inconnue, Ville de Montréal, VM6-R3089-2_9185o W. W. Ogilvie fit construire ce manoir en tant que résidence secondaire en...

By Guillaume St-Jean

Civic Engagement

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