Streetscape / Paysage urbain
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Street Sleeper
Riding my bike home one morning, around 7AM, I came upon this dude taking advantage of the late August moving day purge. This is the alleyway just west...
By Sherwin Tjia -
Photo du jour: Ad scooter
Maybe the companies that run ad trucks down the city’s major streets finally realized how wasteful that was — it now seems that at least some...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Our friend, Côte-de Liesse
I had an opportunity to spend some time on l’Autoroute de la Côte-de-Liesse on foot one rainy day last week. Don’t ask — just trust that I...
By Julie Fournier -
“Tempest in a beer cup”
The Globe and Mail turned its attention to the summer pedestrianization of Ste. Catherine St. in the Village today, focusing in particular on the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Sidewalk-cleaning graffiti
Guerilla advertising in the form of sidewalk stencils is nothing new—Julie’s post below details the city of Portland’s lawsuit against...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s hotel boom
The Gazette reported today that, within the next couple years, Montreal will be home to Canada’s first location of the prestigious Waldorf=Astoria...
By Chris Erb -
Shoes in the Sky
When I began writing for Spacing Montreal I planned to write an exposé on mysterious shoes hanging from power lines. Just a couple of days prior I’d...
By Julie Fournier -
La rue Ste-Catherine, piétonnière de Berri à Papineau
Depuis le début de l’année, Spacing vous a proposé quelques articles sur la piétonnisation de la rue Ste-Catherine, entre Berri et Papineau (1 | 2 ...
By Cédric Sam -
New recycling bins at the Jean-Talon Market
Last Saturday, as some friends and I wandered through Little Italy in the muggy afternoon, we stopped by the Jean-Talon Market. I noticed that new...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Odd things around the Darling Foundry
Everyday, on my way to work, I bike by the Darling Foundry. Being a rather eclectic arts centre, it’s not surprising that the area around the...
By Chris Erb -
Antlerheads erased
Vandalized Antlerheads that could still be seen earlier this week, on the windows of the old Du Parc / Mont-Royal McDonald’s have now disappeared...
By Cédric Sam -
Antlerheads transformed
Not too long ago I wrote about the “Antlerheads” that had appeared around Montreal as part of a guerilla marketing campaign for Vespa. I...
By Christopher DeWolf