Urban Design / Design urbain
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The where of newly immigrated residents in Montreal
Over 1 in 5 people (20.6%) residing in the Montreal metropolitan area immigrated from abroad according to the 2006 Census. This is up from 18.4% in 2001...
By KC Bolton -
Mayor’s launches 5 Shukos at Pecha Kucha night
Shuko: Japanese…an idea, a project, a plan. Gerald Tremblay opened the Pecha Kucha des Élus with a challenge. He invited the audience – a...
By Alanah Heffez -
Le mardi des arbres: les chicots qui remplissent le ciel
Tout le monde qui fait parti du flot de vélos qui vient de l’est vers le centreville via les rues Prince Arthur, Clark et Milton ne peut que...
By Bronwyn Chester -
The Big City Vote- The Liberals
This week, Spacing Montreal takes a look at what each federal party has in store for cities. For an overview of the issues, see Monday’s post. The...
By Olivier Plessis -
Le mardi des arbres: les couleurs de La Fontaine
Arrivée au Parc La Fontaine, j’ai été éblouie par la beauté des arbres. En pensant à la photographie pour cette chronique, je cherchais...
By Bronwyn Chester -
“As a second car, consider a duplex”
Despite a whole lot of urban residential development projects lately, Montreal is still losing about 20,000 young people to the surrounding suburbs each...
By Alanah Heffez -
Mapping the Commute: Income and Driving to work
In the spirit of Monday’s car-free day, this post asks the question: are those who earn higher incomes more likely to drive to work? Using 2006 Canadian...
By KC Bolton -
Le faubourg à m’lasse
Vers 1925 Surnommé le faubourg à m’lasse, le quartier où se situe maintenant la tour de Radio-Canada comptait vers 1880 plus de 16 000 habitants. Ce...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Suck It Up – Underground Trash-Vaccuuming to Replace Dump Trucks in QDS
The automated waste collection system sucks away trash, recyclables and organic waste through underground pipes with a 90 km per hour sucking power. Image...
By Alanah Heffez -
“As a second car, consider a duplex.”
Despite the condos that are popping up all over town, Montreal experiencing a suburban exodus, and loses thousands of families each year to the...
By Alanah Heffez -
Know Hope: Gnome Yo’self Graffiti in Mile End Laneway
By Kimberley Mok The first “Know Hope” installation back in June was a visual reinterpretation of the Mont Royal tam-tams going on in full...
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Is Expo-Driven Development what Montreal Needs?
Moulin à Images by Robert Lepage, Sept 1st, 2008. Sorry for the poor image quality – I was standing on a fire hydrant… I was in Quebec City...
By Alanah Heffez