Urban Design / Design urbain
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Ode to the nighttime metropolis
Kate at Montreal City points the way to a nice essay in today’s Guardian on the pleasures of nighttime wandering. Writer and “confirmed...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Heritage Montreal: a manifesto for new development
It has been decades since Montreal has seen this much development activity. In addition to the many condominium, retail and office buildings proposed or...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Deconstructing the Turcot Interchange
Last year, the provincial government announced that the Turcot Interchange, at the junction of highways 20 and 15, will be completely rebuilt at a cost of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Urbanism and independent art: Last minute announcement
If you’re looking for something to do this cold January evening, check out Citymess, put on by the fine folks at Indyish. It promises to be an...
By Jacob Larsen -
Big changes ahead for Mile End’s garment district
The old industrial area in the east part of Mile End, between St. Laurent and Henri Julien is set for a makeover. Yesterday, the city announced that $8.8...
By Christopher DeWolf -
No debate on the Notre Dame highway
This story slipped through Spacing Montreal’s normally impenetrable news-fishing net, but I’ve managed to retrieve it. On Sunday, Bruno Bisson...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Feeling one’s way through the Metro system
In light of all the ‘drama drama’ that is surrounding the STM these days, here’s something interesting that they are doing. An...
By Paul Erlichman -
Griffintown News Roundup #1: Jan. 9-Jan. 21
Rue Ann looking north, January 2008 Griffintown has graced the pages of the local media a great deal over the last couple weeks. Here is a rundown of many...
By Chris Erb -
Time to bring back trolleybuses?
Before there were bio-buses, there were electric trolleybuses. In 1953, when the above photo was taken at the corner of St. Laurent and Van Horne, many of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Terrasse trouble in Ville Émard
Who would have thought that patios could be so controversial? For nearly a year, since the Sud-Ouest borough approved a pilot project that installed...
By Christopher DeWolf -
A lesson we need to learn from Albania
The downtown west end is one of my favourite parts of Montreal. Densely-populated, teeming with life and resolutely multicultural, it feels unique because...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Patrimoine menacé
Photographie prise en 2006 En 1986, cette maison fut présentée comme suit dans un livre sur l’architecture rurale, publié par le répertoire...
By Guillaume St-Jean