Urban Design / Design urbain
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Sad End in Sight for the Lower Main
This week the the Lower Main redevelopment saga is drawing to a sad and quiet close: on December 21st, the Ville-Marie borough ordered the demolition of...
By Alanah Heffez -
Comment rendre ta rue plus sécuritaire (en 10 étapes faciles)
De menaçant à vivable — un court tronçon de goudron à Montréal est devenu plus sécuritaire pour tous ceux qui habitent dans (et transitent par) mon...
By Émile Thomas -
OCPM Takes the Future of Griffintown Online
A quick look at the map of Griffintown (pdf) shows that every other block is newly developed, under-construction, or awaiting authorization for...
By Alanah Heffez -
NDG cyclists make the case for a safe connection
Source: Bing Maps NDG residents fed up with confusing, scary intersections take note: Tomorrow, your local cycling group will be meeting at Décarie and de...
By Jacob Larsen -
What’s wrong with this picture?
It’s amazing what a few hours poking around the Ministry of Transport’s website can reveal. What does this province spend on new highway...
By Jacob Larsen -
EVENT: Strip-tease QDS
Spacing Montreal is excited to work with the Trudeau Foundation, l’Université de Montréal, and the Maison de l’architecture du Québec to...
By Alanah Heffez -
Tales of Gentrification in a Bohemian City
Montreal: Tales of gentrification in a bohemian city, is a documentary by freelance journalist (and Spacing Montreal contributor) Adam Bemma. I was at...
By Alanah Heffez -
Pourquoi ce n’est pas chic de cadenasser son vélo à un arbre.
Un cycliste, qui peut pédaler la moitié de la ville pour se rendre à un lieu, devient parfois paresseux lorsqu’il est question de stationner son vélo...
By Alexandre Campeau-Vallée -
Taking Responsibility for the Quartier des spectacles Bike Path Debacle
Paul Arcand, the radio show host, often characterizes Montreal as the city-where-no-one-ever-takes-responsibility. Yet, there are instances where the...
By Joel Thibert -
Compteurs d’eau : un jeu dont vous êtes le héros
Un Winnipégois utilise en moyenne 187 litres d’eau par jour. Un Vancouvérois? 358. Un Montréalais? 504! Dans un rapport publié en 2008...
By Jonathan Lapalme -
The Regionalist: Why Haphazard Urban Development is a Moral Failure
Two weeks ago, I wrote an Op-Ed which was published in La Presse and which stirred some controversy – at least in the Facebook/Twitter world. The...
By Joel Thibert -
Jane Jacobs on Toronto and Montreal development trends circa 1969
This is a must see clip in which CBC TV’s “The Way It Is” interviewed Jane Jacobs about development trends in Toronto and Montreal...
By Alanah Heffez