Streetscape / Paysage urbain
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Terrasse trouble in Ville Émard
Who would have thought that patios could be so controversial? For nearly a year, since the Sud-Ouest borough approved a pilot project that installed...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Opening up to the city: one building’s transformation
There’s nothing inherently special about a downtown building with Starbucks, Quiznos Subs and Zyng Noodlery on its ground floor. In fact...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s suburban villages: Sainte Anne de Bellevue
Compact, walkable and attractive, Ste. Anne de Bellevue is one of the nicest old towns in suburban Montreal. It’s also about as far west as you can...
By Christopher DeWolf -
What we lost to the Ville-Marie Expressway
Craig looking east from near St. Urbain, 1953 While Bostonians have engaged in three decades of self-flagellation over the neighbourhoods they lost to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Chinatown, l’hiver
Photo prise sur De La Gauchetière, entre St-Urbain et St-Dominique, le 22 décembre 2007.
By Cédric Sam -
Les lignes séparatrices
De l’origine de l’histoire humaine jusqu’au début du 20e siècles, les routes ne comportaient pas de ligne séparatrices...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Michel Dallaire to design new downtown street furniture
“Les amoureux se bécoteront sur de nouveaux bancs publics,” reads a headline in this morning’s Le Devoir — “Lovers will kiss...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Chinatown gets a New York makeover
I was walking up St. Laurent this evening when I noticed that Wah Fung, a gift shop located just above Viger, had a new sign. It was nice, but something...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Avant et après la tempête…
En prévision de notre première super grosse de l’année (jugez-en par l’impressionnante liste d’établissements scolaires fermés), je...
By Cédric Sam -
Montreal’s suburban villages: Pointe Claire
Over the course of Montreal’s history, plenty of old towns and villages have been swallowed whole by the insatiable appetite of its suburban sprawl...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Ma ruelle préférée : alignement informel
En général, on s’attend à ce que ce soient les grands boulevards et les grandes rues qui s’enlignent sur les points de repères de la ville...
By Thomas-Bernard Kenniff -
It’s Tempo season!
It’s that time of year when people in many Montreal neighbourhoods start installing much-maligned Tempo shelters to protect their driveways...
By Christopher DeWolf