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Tell us about your Mount Royal
La Presse turned its attention towards Mount Royal yesterday with an interesting trio of features on social dynamics of the mountain. Not only is it the...
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Election Signs: Winner Every Time
Although most election signs for last month’s by-election in the federal riding of Outremont were vandalised in some way or another, this one on...
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Photo du jour : Édifice JMSB, Université Concordia (en construction)
Photo prise au coin des rues Guy et De Maisonneuve le 7 octobre 2007.
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Headlines / À la une : 2007.10.10
IN THE STREETS / DANS LA RUE Un nouveau tunnel pour contrer… l’étalement urbain! — 10.10 (Le Journal) Quebec mall puts West Edmonton on...
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L’îlot Trafalgar-Gleneagles
Devant être remplacées par une tour de 10 étages, les maisons Thompson et Sparrow furent sauvées de la démolition lorsque l’îlot...
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Quelques exemples de restaurations
Au cours des dernières années, certains propriétaires ayant à coeur la sauvegarde du patrimoine ont accomplis des ouvrages de restaurations remarquable...
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Photo du jour : Le sang des banlieues
Photo prise à Kirkland, au coin des boulevards St-Charles et Brunswick, le 6 octobre 2007.
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One-storey houses in Hochelaga
Montreal developed as a geographically disparate patchwork of independent municipalities. Many of these old towns and suburbs were long ago absorbed into...
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Outremont scotch and the City Hall schism
You must have already heart of the Outremont booze scandal. No? Well, let me refresh you: on September 27th, Le Devoir and La Presse revealed that...
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Slutsky and Buller do Mile End
“Mile End sucks it,” wrote one respondent to the survey at our launch party last month. That person might want to avoid General 54 on Thursday...
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Photo du jour: Crossroads
St. Denis and Jean Talon. February 3, 2007
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Two strips of dirt: my favourite laneway
The other day, Christopher DeWolf asked us all to think of our favourite laneways and I think I happened upon mine this week. I always knew there existed...
By Chris Erb
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered