Urban Design / Design urbain
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Devimco scrapping project unless city pitches in, expropriation orders lifted
The bad news for Devimco’s proposed 1.3 billion dollar redevelopment keeps piling up with last week possibly being the tipping point. After being...
By Chris Erb -
Brooks in the City
Preparing the foundation for the Meilleur-Atlantique tributary sewer on north shore of Montreal. (Photo source: City of Montreal Archives) How else...
By Andrew Emond -
Photo du Jour : The Last Days of the Seville
It was an ugly day, but I has a sudden urgent need to snap a picture of the abandoned Seville Theatre on Ste-Catherine and Chomedy. Despite attempts to...
By Alanah Heffez -
Cité Jardin : A Suburb Done Differently
There was a time, I can imagine, when suburbs were not such a terrible idea. Ignore for a moment the gluttonous land consumption and slothful...
By Alanah Heffez -
CCA hosts a guided tour of urban surveillance in Montreal
This weekend Bill Brown of the Surveillance Camera Players will give a tour of surveillance cameras in downtown Montreal entitled Discovering the...
By KC Bolton -
Bassins du Nouveau Havre goes to Consultation
There was some lively debate on this blog back in November when the plans for the old Canada Post site in Pointe-St-Charles (site tri-postal) were...
By Alanah Heffez -
Montreal Psychogeography Society in the news
A veritable flurry of media interest has surrounded the Psychogeography Society in recent weeks, which might interest our readers. A journalist from...
By Jacob Larsen -
Devimco to scale back Griffintown Project
An older mockup of the Projet-Griffintown plan proposed by Devimco last year. Yesterday, The Gazette reported that Devimco, the company that gained...
By Chris Erb -
Public Consultation for CN yards in Pointe St Charles
The Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal is opening a second round of consultations about the redevelopment of old CN yards in Pointe St. Charles...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour : Site Tri-Postal
Photo taken from the Concordia Engineering building, corner Guy & Ste-Catherine, Dec 8 2008. The sprawling, blue-sided Canada Post sorting building...
By Alanah Heffez -
Upcoming Consultation for Place L’Acadie Redevelopment
The Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal (OPCM) is holding sessions starting on January 28th for a residential development in...
By Alanah Heffez -
The renter’s city mapped
Note Feb 27th, 2009: In the course of creating a similar map for Toronto for comparison purposes, I found that there may be a problem in the way I...
By KC Bolton