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Car-Free Neighbourhoods Week from the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre
This month the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre is gearing up for an activity-packed week that aims to explore the concept of car-free neighbourhoods. Many...
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Je suis montréalais
« Well maybe it’s just the time of year, or maybe it’s the time of man – I don’t know who I am, but, you know, life is for learning. » – Joni...
By Émile Thomas -
World Wide Wednesday: Hotspots – Tokyo, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Copenhagen
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 -
Devimco’s New Griffintown Scheme: “District Griffin”
Devimco, the embattled developer with big plans for the forlorn neighbourhood of Griffintown, south of Downtown, have finally unveiled their new, albeit...
By Chris Erb -
World Wide Wednesday: Mobile Food, Noisy Hybrids, Fighting for the Empire, Moscow Traffic
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 -
Photo du Jour – Mile End Pumpkin Patch
Spotted on the corner of Saint-Viateur and Waverly, during the Journée des Bons Voisins…Will it hold out until Halloween?
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Fruiterie sous la pluie
La Fruiterie Mile End sur l’Avenue du Parc, par un dimanche pluvieux.
By Alanah Heffez -
Sidewalk sales around town
Another Saturday, another overwhelming list of things going on about town… Saint-Hubert is having a sidewalk sale this weekend and ball-gowns are on...
By Alanah Heffez -
No right on red was a good choice for Montreal: MTQ
La Presse recently dug up a provincial report that quantifies the deaths and injuries related to right turns on red lights, which have been permitted in...
By Alanah Heffez -
World Wide Wednesday: Where in the world?
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 -
Photo du Jour : Riddell’s Door
Given the kind of neighbourhood that Mile End has become, Riddell’s storefront can easily be mistaken for work of installation art rather than a...
By Alanah Heffez -
Saturday Adventures
One of the things that is so great – and so overwhelming – about this city is that a zillion things tend to be going on all at the same time...
By Alanah Heffez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered