Urban Design / Design urbain
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Roerich Garden highlights abandoned site’s value in the face of St-Viateur expansion
Sprout Out Loud! gardening collective in the Mile End meadow on November 2nd 2008. Photo by Melissa Campbell. In an abandoned CP Rail lot in the Mile End...
By Alanah Heffez -
An interview with Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable on their 10th Anniversary
ED: Spacing is pleased to publish this guest post & interview by Montreal writer Alexandra Redgrave. This year marks the tenth anniversary of...
By Spacing -
A Street With a View in Pittsburgh
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDGyRO6w2o[/youtube] As Google Street View spreads from city to city, it’s inevitable that people will try...
By Shawn Micallef -
Hopeful about Les bassins du nouveau havre
“Actually, they are the basins of the ancien havre but that ‘s what happens when the branding guys get hold of this,” commented Mark...
By Alanah Heffez -
Devimco Griffintown project on ice
In our current economic climate where even hundreds of billions of dollars don’t make problems go away, it has been increasingly difficult to secure...
By Jacob Larsen -
Société Radio Canada plans to re-create dense urban neighbourhood
The Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal is holding and information session and three workshops this month on the Radio Canada’s site. This...
By Alanah Heffez -
Doubling the downtown population, with the private-sector
Of the 864 census tracts in the Montreal Metropolitan Area, only three doubled their populations between 2001 and 2006. Two of the three cover areas in...
By KC Bolton -
Know Hope: Tesseract
By Kimberley Mok The ubiquitous mansard roofs* of Montréal have always fascinated me. From the monumental to the ordinary vernacular, these distinctive...
By Kimberley Mok -
Public Online Forum to Inspire Bellechasse PPU
Rosemont-Petite-Patrie is creating a Plan Particulier d’Urbanisme (PPU) for the Bellechasse sector, bordered by St-Laurent, St-Denis, Bellechasse...
By Alanah Heffez -
Mind the Gap – What the Tropical Jungle can Teach the Concrete Jungle about Diversity
I’ve been running around this week, interviewing some people about the creative ways that they use public – or not so public – space for...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Autumn lofts
Residential loft building that would may be expropriated and demolished to make way for the construction of the new Turcot interchange.
By Alanah Heffez -
Pedestrian Ste-Catherine may extend to QDS and beyond
This morning, Ville-Marie borough mayor Benoit Labonté announced that the experimental pedestrianization of Ste-Catherine street between Berri and...
By Alanah Heffez