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Toronto Tuesday : Nuit Blanche & Heritage Awards
Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues...
By Timea Jakab -
Dimanche démocratique : Piller les autres villes pour mieux gérer la nôtre
« Un vrai leader n’a pas besoin de conduire. Il suffit qu’il montre le chemin. » – Henry Miller Il faut le dire : une sécheresse de...
By Émile Thomas -
Metro melody dou-dou-dou doomed
What are your favourite sounds of Montreal? Mine is the lovely chord that the metro trains make when they start up – you know, the one featured in the...
By Alanah Heffez -
The Milk Bottle Mystique
Oh boy! Oh yay! The Guaranteed Milk Bottle will be saved! Our infrastructure may be crumbling, our highways a-tangle, our government corrupt, but a fresh...
By Alanah Heffez -
Waxing poetic about trash
This is cross-posted from Misha’s blog. Can anyone remember back in 2007 when the City of Montreal handed out 100,000 pocket ashtrays? Yeah…...
By Misha Warbanski -
Google Street View launches across Canada today
To the detriment of a great deal of work that needed to be done today, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Google Street View had finally been added...
By Chris Erb -
Who are those cyclists, anyways?
In a response to Saturday’s Gazette article on the city’s car-bike-pedestrian power struggle, a reader asked: “Enough of this story. When was the last...
By KC Bolton -
Photo du jour : Un ange déchu de l’église St-Enfant-Jésus-du-Mile-End
Retirés en 1978, dû à leur état de détérioration avancé, les 2 groupes de statues qui ornaient depuis 1910 la façade de l’église...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Dimanche démocratique : Tribal warfare
Recent analysis of the municipal elections (November 1st; and don’t you forget it) has made allusion to a possible division between voters; a division the...
By Émile Thomas -
Bread, Circuses and Public Spaces
The winter gloves came out in full force the first night of October; any trace of a possible Indian summer has coldly been erased from our minds. Some are...
By Émile Thomas -
Le mardi des arbres: Le cerisier tardif
Avec ma sensibilité d’anglophone, j’ai toujours trouvé comique le nom du plus grand cerisier de notre forêt, le cerisier tardif (black cherry...
By Bronwyn Chester -
A theatrical take on Quebec’s highway infrastructure
Cleaning up the mess: the de la Concorde overpass (Courtesy of the Daily Commercial News) It is now three years after the collapse of the de la Concorde...
By Jacob Larsen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered