Urban Design / Design urbain
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Sunday – A March for Sustainable Transportation
Residents from St. Henri and from all across Montreal are marching tomorrow to demand that the Turcot reconstruction project be reconceived at a human...
By Jacob Larsen -
City chops down 67 crabapple trees
The city has axed 67 crabapple trees in a small square, Place Albert-Duquesne, behind Place des Arts. The trees, which were planted after the construction...
By Christopher DeWolf -
What Montreal can learn from Cleveland
Source: MTQ I was reading recently about Cleveland’s efforts in the 1970s to stop a county-planned highway from tearing a giant swath through one of...
By Jacob Larsen -
Montreal’s Underground Underdogs
Inside the Molson Collector, somewhere beneath Rue Dickson in 2007. When it comes to Montreal’s underground achievements, the Metro system tends...
By Andrew Emond -
Uncovering Turcot’s future (under a mountain of paper): BAPE documents reviewed
Source: MTQ On March 24, the Bureau des Audiences Publiques sur l’environnement revealed the documents which it will be considering its...
By Jacob Larsen -
Montreal’s shoebox/hobbit houses
I’ve always been curious about the flat-roofed one-storey houses that are sprinkled throughout many of Montreal’s neighbourhoods. Rather than...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Plateau-Mont-Royal borough releases traffic-calming plan
As part of the city’s Plan de transport, an ambitious set of guidelines designed to decrease the number of cars on city streets and better...
By Chris Erb -
New City Gas Co. building threatened by bus corridor proposal/Bonaventure redevelopment
The plan to tear down the Bonaventure Expressway in favour of an “urban boulevard” (with four lanes going both ways), complete with new office...
By Chris Erb -
Independent Experts Question Turcot Plans
Turcot Think Tank: independent experts held a press conference March 17th. A team of independent experts calling themselves the Turcot Think Tank (TTT...
By Alanah Heffez -
Everything You Probably Never Cared to Know About Manhole Covers
Final sewer inspection, North Collector, Montreal, 1955. (Photo source: City of Montreal Archives) I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that...
By Andrew Emond -
Is this what we wanted?
Mixed-use development. Small-scale, street-level commerce. Walkable. Comfortable building height to street width ratio. Architecturally coherent, while...
By Alanah Heffez -
Petit à petit, le Swatow Nouveau fait son nid
La Plaza Swatow sur St-Laurent La Plaza Swatow sur Clark La Plaza Swatow （長盛廣場）, un ambitieux projet de 20 millions de dollars, prend forme lentement au...
By Cédric Sam