Streetscape / Paysage urbain

Mont Royal Ave’s first flirtation with pedestrianization

Summer 1970: Montreal’s first mall. Not the suburban kind of mall we’ve grown to dread, but a pedestrian shopping area in the heart of the...

Photo du Jour – La plaza St-Hubert en lumières

1ière avenue, part 4: Rosemont/St-Michel

Perhaps the recent launch of Google Street View for Canadian cities has made my trips to the many 1ière avenues of Montreal somewhat unnecessary.  A visit...

New AMT Windsor station hub examined

Image from The Gazette This week the AMT released a plan to build a new transit hub directly south of Windsor Station, whichwould permit the historic...

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...

Villeray’s piéton vert

A few days ago spray-painted footsteps appeared at intersections in the south-west part of Villeray, with the stencil “Réclamez un passage.”...

Fluffy? It’s summer snow!

In some areas of Montreal, you might have noticed this “fluff” that has been falling up and down for at least the past three weeks. On my...

Photo du jour : Montréalhenge!

Inspired by last week’s Spacing Montreal post Montréalhenge, I set off to have my own sight at the sun setting on the north-south axis of...

What happened to rue St-Norbert?

My friend recently picked up a copy of the book “Picture this! Posters of Social Movements in Québec (1966-2007)“.  While leafing through the...

The latest on the Lower Main

Spacing commentor Louis Rastelli called me out on this one: it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to critique the plans for 2-22 Ste-Catherine East...

Lower Main May be Razed…Again

The big changes in store for the lower Main that we announced over a year ago are slowly becoming concrete. In December, the Gazette reported that Angus...

Photo du Jour : Printemps sur la rue Plessis

Photo prise le 27 avril 2009.