Walking / Marche
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Feeling the Region in our Feet
Last weekend, I took part in Walk the Region, a journey on foot Pointe-Aux-Anglais, in Oka, to Sainte-Hilaire, in an attempt to understand what the heck...
By Alanah Heffez -
Walk the region: Laval à l’image de Montréal
Lorsqu’on marche Laval de long en large, on se rend compte que plusieurs des préjugés sur l’île Jésus sont erronés. Premièrement, il n’y...
By Joel Thibert -
Countdown to Walk the Region
The idea took root last December during IPAM’s citizen agora on Metropolitan Planning. After two days of studying the map of Montreal’s...
By Alanah Heffez -
Events guide: Mikael Colville-Andersen to speak at the Grande Bibliothèque
Last year, Kristian S. Villadsen and Louise Kielgast of Gehl Architects visited Montreal to tell us how we might “Copenhagenize” our city (the...
By Chris Erb -
Janes’ Walk Previews May 7th and 8th 2011
This year’s edition of Jane’s Walk Montreal features 25 neighbourhood explorations on May 7th and 8th. Spacing Toronto recently interviewed...
By Alanah Heffez -
Passage à niveau sur la voie ferrée : les négociations sont entamées entre les arrondissements et le CP
Le Canadien Pacifique (CP) et les arrondissements du Plateau-Mont-Royal et de Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie ont finalement entamé les discussions pour trouver...
By Spacing -
Walk the region!
Nearly a century has passed since Benton MacKaye wrote The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning, in which he called upon urban planners of...
By Joel Thibert -
Active Transportation on the Rise Across the Region
Image:Â There sure do seem to be a lot more bikes on the road than there were 7 years ago…at least on the corner of Berri and Cherrier Last...
By Alanah Heffez -
Campaign advertises pedestrian deaths
I feel weird and kind of angry about this ad campaign in the metro and in bus shelters around town. 1367 pedestrians were hit last year, one poster...
By Alanah Heffez -
No right on red was a good choice for Montreal: MTQ
La Presse recently dug up a provincial report that quantifies the deaths and injuries related to right turns on red lights, which have been permitted in...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour : Rue Sainte-Cath en roses
La rue Sainte-Catherine, piétonnisé entre Berri et Papineau pour l’été, vue depuis le Pont Jacques-Cartier.
By Alanah Heffez -
Événement : Journée des bons voisins dans le Mile-End
« We’re just a group of neighbourhood residents who want to make improvements to public space, and the streets are the biggest part of our public space. Â...
By Émile Thomas