Streetscape / Paysage urbain
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Photo du Jour : Sherbrooke Street Sunset
Photo taken December 22nd, Corner Sherbrooke and Marcil, looking West.
By Alanah Heffez -
Nice bollards
TAIWAN — Taipei is a surprising city. There’s a fine line between ugly haphazardness and charming idiosyncrasy; for the most part, the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Sounds of the City
Perhaps even more than the rich visual details that the city has to offer, sound invades our experience of public space, yet this blog has rarely explored...
By Alanah Heffez -
L’histoire banale d’un trou exceptionnel
Montréal n’ayant pas été planifiée au milieu du 19ème siècle, les percées visuelles qui aboutissent sur quelque chose d’intéressant sont assez...
By Joel Thibert -
Roadsworth’s Street Art To Help Revitalize Saint-Pierre
Most people don’t venture into Saint-Pierre unless they live there, work there, or are truly lost. The neighbourhood is islated between two railway...
By Alanah Heffez -
Une ville sans trous
J’ai toujours été fasciné par ces trous et ces interstices dans la trame urbaine qui surgissent un peu partout dans la ville et qu’on...
By Joel Thibert -
Un tramway rue Sainte-Catherine ?
Comme en font foi ces photos prises sur la rue Sainte-Catherine, les rails de l’ancien tramway de Montréal n’ont pas tout à fait été rayés de...
By Cédric Sam -
Pedestrian Ste-Catherine may extend to QDS and beyond
This morning, Ville-Marie borough mayor Benoit Labonté announced that the experimental pedestrianization of Ste-Catherine street between Berri and...
By Alanah Heffez -
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...
By Chris Erb -
Photo du jour – Automne
Photo prises sur le côté nord-est du Parc Mont Royal, Octobre 2008
By KC Bolton -
Photo du Jour – aligned
Photo taken on Guy, below Ste-Caterine, looking East.
By Alanah Heffez -
Toronto to Montreal: nice benches!
If you ignore the cliché in the lead (does every Toronto story about Montreal need to mention separatism?), it’s worth checking out Christopher...
By Christopher DeWolf