Urban Design / Design urbain
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Photo du jour: הצלה
Hatzoloh is a volunteer EMS organization that functions in Orthodox Jewish communities around the world, including the west end of Montreal and Kiryas...
By Christopher DeWolf -
What we lost to the Ville-Marie Expressway
Craig looking east from near St. Urbain, 1953 While Bostonians have engaged in three decades of self-flagellation over the neighbourhoods they lost to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Turn on the red light
The video screen of a silhouetted stripper was once a landmark at the corner of Ste. Catherine and the Main. It was a symbol of sorts for Montreal’s...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Les fleurs c’est pour la rue Demers
I’ve always been intrigued by Demers Street. It’s a tiny street in the north end of the Plateau, running parallel to Villeneuve between...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Poor NOLA: The violent struggle to rebuild a great city
On his blog yesterday Richard Florida posted “Shades of Robert Moses” and asked “So you thought urban renewal and the destruction of...
By Shawn Micallef -
Bâtiment disparu #3 : La Knox Presbytherian church
La Knox church construite en 1865 était situé au coin des rues René-Lévesque et Mansfield. Elle était l’oeuvre de l’architecte Edward Maxwell...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Maison Radio-Canada to be converted into hotel, condos, offices
Montreal is awash in development. Between the two megahospitals, the Quartier des spectacles, Griffintown, Viger Station and countless smaller...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Keep de Maisonneuve closed to traffic
Downtown motorists will have to wait until March to drive down the block of de Maisonneuve Blvd. between Aylmer and Union, the city has announced. By...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Armchair flâneur: Google Street View
Since that day in 1993 when the University of Windsor gave me my first internet account (that required a bureaucratic sign-up process and a two-week wait...
By Shawn Micallef -
Opposition keeps mounting to Notre Dame plan
If the Ministère du transport du Québec expected a smooth ride for its plan to upgrade Notre Dame Street between the east end of downtown and Highway 25...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Laval wants more metro
Whet by this year’s new metro extension, Laval’s appetite for public transit is now insatiable. Last summer, long-time mayor Gilles...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Plaza Saint Hubert before the green awning
Plaza Saint Hubert, the shopping district on St. Hubert St. between Bellechasse and Jean Talon, is notorious for its chintzy stores and green-trimmed...
By Christopher DeWolf