Urban Design / Design urbain
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Pedestrian Streets: Should MacKay be pedestrian only?
This is the beginning of a series of articles concerning pedestrian and shared streets in Montreal. Each article will either focus on an existing...
By Chris Erb -
Living in a laneway: why not?
Abandoned laneway triplex near St. Louis Square This summer, while wandering through one of the sidestreets between Prince Arthur and Sherbrooke, I veered...
By Christopher DeWolf -
$120 million to build the Quartier des spectacles
After years in the making, the plans for the Quartier des spectacles are finally coming together. Yesterday, it was announced that all three levels of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Marché Central going green? Yeah, right
Marché Central, the big box power centre that has emerged recently around the corner of Acadie and Chabanel, just north of the Metropolitan, is installing...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Is Montreal once again bulldozing neighbourhoods?
Montreal has lost a lot of neighbourhoods over the years, thanks mostly to postwar mega-projects. In 1964, Goose Village, a working-class Italian...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Will the Big Bibliothèque finally open its book market?
When it opened at the end of April, 2005, the Grande Bibliothèque defied expectations when it attracted tens of thousands of people who were eager to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
McGill students offer ideas for Pine and Park
On a crisp evening early last week, I joined about two dozen other people in a crowded studio on the fourth floor of McGill’s Macdonald-Harrington...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Walking Hochelaga
Following the minor splash made by a recent article in Mirror, Montreal’s fledgling Psychogeography Society turned its gaze — and its feet...
By Jacob Larsen -
De Maisonneuve bike lane opens
After 20 years of demands by local cyclists, and a construction process that inadvertently cracked a tunnel beneath the street, the de Maisonneuve bike...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Another main street to be reconstructed
In the midst of endless complaints about the slow pace of renovation work on the Main, another, much smaller main street is about to get a makeover: Ste...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Public edifices and places publiques in today’s Devoir
This weekend’s edition of Le Devoir includes a couple of interesting articles on public space in Montreal. On the front page, Stéphane Baillergeon...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Explore Montreal with your own two feet — and psyche
When I opened this week’s edition of the Mirror I was surprised to find, right next to my own article about Larry Beasley, another story about...
By Christopher DeWolf