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Photo du jour : Silo 5
The Old Port’s Silo 5, out of commission since 1996.
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Urban Planet: White Ribbons in Moscow
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Urban Planet: Pedestrian Desire Lines
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of 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 : Bière d’épinette de Chez-Nous
A wonderfully kitschy gem located on Marie-Anne just east of De Lorimier, in the east end of the Plateau. Unfortunately the casse-croûte in question is...
By Devin Alfaro -
Photo du jour : Most beneficient and most glorious reign
Detail of a monument to Queen Victoria, in Dorchester Square. The amount of “The Maple Leaf Forever” style kitsch in this one public space is...
By Devin Alfaro -
Spacing Saturday: Transit Planning, the Tall Building Century and Founding Spacington
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. A new city was...
By Marcus Bowman -
Urban Planet: Super tall
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Sim City: Welcome to Spacington
Well, here it is: Spacington. The new look of 21st century urbanism- well, kind of. The truth is there is nothing here yet, and that is because this...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Witold Rybcyznski vs Richard Florida
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of 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 : Dorchester Square
Dorchester Square looking towards the north, as seen last fall. The prominent statue is a monument to Montrealers who fought in the Boer War. Extremely...
By Devin Alfaro -
Opposition showdown in Rosemont on the horizon
Vieux-Rosemont council district. Last week Vieux-Rosemont city councillor Pierre Lampron resigned, citing personal reasons. Having previously been the...
By Devin Alfaro -
The Regionalist: Of suburbs, genes and childhood memories
One of the most politically charged and ideologically loaded question in the field of metropolitan studies is that which concerns people’s...
By Joel Thibert