Streetscape / Paysage urbain
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Will the Big Bibliothèque finally open its book market?
When it opened at the end of April, 2005, the Grande Bibliothèque defied expectations when it attracted tens of thousands of people who were eager to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Avenue du Mont-Royal
Photo prise sur l’Avenue du Mont-Royal, coin Avenue Du Parc, le 21 octobre 2007, un dimanche d’été indien.
By Cédric Sam -
Another main street to be reconstructed
In the midst of endless complaints about the slow pace of renovation work on the Main, another, much smaller main street is about to get a makeover: Ste...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Tuned in — but moved out
I was struck by this little electronics repair shop on a bike ride through Ville Émard. With the advent of flat screen TVs, produced in distant places...
By Jacob Larsen -
Faulty towers
Most people will say that the idea of an 11.25-metre tall billboard sitting on a sidewalk is offensive to them. But the seeming lack of general opposition...
By Paul Erlichman -
What Vancouver can teach us about street furniture
Last week on Urbanphoto, I wrote about street furniture and sidewalk decoration in Vancouver. While Vancouver is a much newer, smaller city than Montreal...
By Christopher DeWolf -
My favourite laneway: a bit of the Parisian banlieue
Contrary to what most tourist brochures will tell you, the “Paris of North America” actually has very little in common with the real Paris...
By Christopher DeWolf -
How to ruin and revive a main street
Two of Montreal’s newspapers turned their attention to the city’s main streets today. The Gazette bemoans the state of “the black hole...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Your favourite laneway / Votre ruelle préferée
Foggy alley off St. Viateur St. in Mile End Montreal’s laneways are the city’s shadow streets. Unnamed and underrecognized, they cut through...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Verdun
I believe this is 1re ave looking toward rue Wellington in Verdun. Taken on my first trip to Verdun, September 2006.
By Chris Erb -
Odd things around town
One of the best things about wandering around town is finding all sorts of architectural and infrastructural oddities like unusual street signs and...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Au Revoir
This eclectic block of Ste-Catherine at Jeanne-Mance will soon be demolished to make way for a souless mid-rise office building housing a Best Buy at...
By Chris Erb