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Where NYC manhole covers come from
Yesterday’s New York Times had a piece (and a neat audio slide show) on the the origin of that city’s manhole covers. Foreign worker safety is...
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Photo du jour: A vanished market
This compilation was created by Spacing Montreal’s own Guillaume St-Jean. The first photo, taken in 1985 by flickr user ifotog, shows the MarchĂ...
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Demain, une conférence sur le Quartier des spectacles
QUOI? Conférence sur le développement du Quartier des spectacles QUAND? Le mardi 27 novembre, 17h OÙ? Amphithéâtre Hydro-Québec, local 1120, 2940, chemin...
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What makes a good library?
Earlier this month, the city and province announced that they will team up to invest $37.5 million in Montreal’s libraries, with plans to create...
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Photo du jour: Squat Préfontaine
Kate McDonnell took this photo of the old PrĂ©fontaine squat. She provides a bit of background: “This was originally built in 1886 as a smallpox...
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Montreal’s suburban villages: Pointe Claire
Over the course of Montreal’s history, plenty of old towns and villages have been swallowed whole by the insatiable appetite of its suburban sprawl...
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Public hearing: Pine/Park to stay as it is
Yesterday, while a handful of Spacing Montreal contributors sat in a musty church basement with hundreds of other Expozine exhibitors and visitors, about...
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Photo du jour: Little mosque on St. Dominique
Newly-expanded mosque near Ste. Catherine and St. Laurent. October 29, 2007
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Spacing Montréal et Expozine, together at last!
QUOI? Expozine, le salon des fanzines, bandes dessinées et petits éditeurs WHAT? Expozine, the annual small press, comic and zine fair QUAND? Samedi le 24...
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Photo du jour: 24 hour studying
Milton Street near Park Avenue, McGill Ghetto. October 30, 2007
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Reaction to the Griffintown mega-development
Since news broke yesterday afternoon with details about Devimco’s plan to massively redevelop Griffintown, the blogosphere has been abuzz with...
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Photo du jour: Posters on Milton
Milton Street near Aylmer, McGill Ghetto. October 30, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered