Urban Design / Design urbain
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Parking Lot Turned Garden on Duluth
If you’ve walked on Duluth near rue Coloniale recently, you’ve probably noticed a charming change in the neighbourhood. A local community centre, House of...
By Timea Jakab -
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...
By Alanah Heffez -
2-22 Ste-Catherine – A whole new street
2-22 Ste-Catherine by night. Image by Société de Redéveloppement Angus, Paul Andreu, Aedifica & Gilles Huot, May 21 (PDF). It may be ugly, it may be...
By Alanah Heffez -
De quoi avez-vous rêvé hier soir pour Montréal ?
Au sujet de son arrivée au Canada, il y a presque 40 ans, mon père prétend que : « Malheureusement, je suis arrivé à Toronto ; heureusement, je suis restÃ...
By Émile Thomas -
Makeover proposed for the Palais de Justice
Back in the dead of winter, I did a short post that included a photo of the austere, East-facing wall of the Palais de Justice. My immediate reaction was...
By Jacob Larsen -
Maguire Meadow Garden Deemed Illegal
I hate to put up a second post about bizarre law-enforcing activities over the weekend, but it has to be said: last Sunday, the Montreal Police broke up a...
By Alanah Heffez -
Turcot, Glen Yards and the St-Jacques Escarpment Through the Ages
The NDG Jane’s walk earlier this month ventured “below the tracks” to an area that is as fascinating as it is has been isolated over the...
By Alanah Heffez -
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...
By Alanah Heffez -
Mile End Citizens Take Participatory Planning into their Own Hands
 About 130 residents came together in Mile End last Sunday to pen a collective vision for the future of their neighbourhood during a Forum organized by...
By Alanah Heffez -
More Life – Biodiversity and the Parc des Rapides
 Cecilia Chen is a special contributor to Spacing Montreal. This article is part of a series of three-part series examining biodiversity along an urban...
By Spacing -
Demonstration for an alternate Turcot: a photo essay
It was a beautiful day in St. Henri for a long walk and that’s exactly what 2000 or so residents and concerned citizens did yesterday, to show their...
By Jacob Larsen -
La place Albert-Duquesne sans ses pommetiers
Malgré que je passe aux abords de la place Albert-Duquesne tous les jours, ce n’est qu’aujourd’hui que j’ai remarqué le contraste...
By Cédric Sam