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Photo du jour: Under the overpass
This part of Côte-St-Paul is one of the strangest parts of Montreal I’ve ever been to. Dilapidated houses, graffiti covered abandoned store fronts...
By Chris Erb -
Montage du jour : Intersection des rues Sainte-Catherine et Bleury
2007-2008
By Guillaume St-Jean -
1ière avenue, part 1: Verdun
Corner of Wellington and 1re Avenue in Verdun. These street signs are unique to Verdun’s Wellington Street “Downtown” commercial strip...
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Richard Florida on Montreal’s Street-level Creative Energy
Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, published an epic, upbeat editorial in the Gazette yesterday...
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Ville-Marie’s Mega Ads
Sept 28th – Workers replace the gigantic ad on the corner of St-Laurent and Ste-Catherine. Last year, the borough of Ville Marie joined the city of...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour – Automne
Photo prises sur le côté nord-est du Parc Mont Royal, Octobre 2008
By KC Bolton -
La tour de Trafalgar
La tour en 1926. Source : BANQ, Pistard, P600,S6,D4,P61 Cette minuscule tour gothique dont l’emplacement ne semble pas figurer sur aucune carte...
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Montage du jour : La rue Notre-Dame depuis l’hôtel de ville
Vers 1870-2008 Source : Musée McCord http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/fr/collection/artefacts/MP-0000.1452.46§ion=196 MP-0000.1452.46
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The where of newly immigrated residents in Montreal
Over 1 in 5 people (20.6%) residing in the Montreal metropolitan area immigrated from abroad according to the 2006 Census. This is up from 18.4% in 2001...
By KC Bolton -
Where does your garden grow?
A recent post of a great stairway garden on Apartment Therapy.com made me wonder, in the last days before winter, where can one find urban, alternative...
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Photo du Jour – aligned
Photo taken on Guy, below Ste-Caterine, looking East.
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Montage du jour : Le boulevard René-Lévesque près de la rue Bishop
Around 1965-2008
By Guillaume St-Jean
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered