{"id":130,"date":"2007-10-05T13:23:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-10-05T18:06:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T22:06:43","slug":"your-favourite-laneway-ta-ruelle-preferee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/10\/05\/your-favourite-laneway-ta-ruelle-preferee\/","title":{"rendered":"Your favourite laneway \/ Votre ruelle pr\u00e9fer\u00e9e"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFoggy alley off St. Viateur St. in Mile End<\/em><\/p>\n

Montreal’s laneways are the city’s shadow streets. Unnamed and underrecognized, they cut through the city fabric like a knife through baklava, revealing the accumulated layers of human occupation behind the street’s prim fa\u00e7ades. Here you will see the unrenovated, unassuming backsides of buildings, all fire escapes and crumbling bricks or scattered backyard toys and laundry lines. <\/p>\n

Les ruelles ont fait leur apparition \u00e0 Montreal \u00e0 la fin du XIXe si\u00e8cle, gr\u00e2ce aux nouveaux codes de b\u00e2timent qui avaient tent\u00e9 de dissimuler tout ce qui \u00e9tait disgracieux de la vie urbaine : les d\u00e9chets, les livraisons, les cordes \u00e0 linge, les pensions pour chevaux. L’\u00e9tonnant, c’\u00e9tait que le v\u00e9ritable coeur montr\u00e9alais se trouvait dans cette quotidienne tout \u00e0 fait inesth\u00e9tique. La ruelle est donc devenu un lieu vivant et typique. Les enfants y jouaient, les voisins y c\u00f4toyaient. <\/p>\n

Every laneway is distinct and there are even subtle differences between the alleys of different neighbourhoods. Many of Outremont’s laneways, especially those in the north part of the neighbourhood around Bernard, Lajoie and Van Horne, are narrow, imposing and defiantly urban. The lack of vegetation — not to mention backyards — comes as a bit of a shock when you consider the verdancy of Outremont’s streets. What isn’t surprising, though, is how impeccably tidy Outremont’s alleys are. The detritus you find elsewhere in Montreal (abandoned furniture, overflowing bags of garbage) seems eerily absent.<\/p>\n

In nearby Mile End, by contrast, the laneways are just as imposing but filled with all sorts of junk, trash and odd things. Graffiti and street art is abundant. Throughout the neighbourhood, people have fixed plastic bag holders to hydro poles, accompanied by signs that read ‘Doggie bag take out pour emporter.’ <\/p>\n

Villeray’s alleys are free and open, giving you access to an alternate dimension of ample, grassy backyards, some even with pools, clotheslines billowing in the wind. In the Latin Quarter, the laneways hide unexpected houses, ateliers, warehouses and autobody shops. <\/p>\n

Nous, l’\u00e9quipe de Spacing Montr\u00e9al, voulions donc savoir : quelle est votre ruelle pr\u00e9fer\u00e9e ? Est-ce qu’il y en a une \u00e0 Verdun, ou \u00e0 Westmount, ou n’importe o\u00f9 qui vous tient \u00e0 coeur ? Does your own back alley make you swoon? Let us know. Vos r\u00e9ponses nous aiderons \u00e0 explorer la ville, pour d\u00e9couvrir les ruelles les plus chouettes de Montr\u00e9al. Pendant les jours \u00e0 venir, nous partagerons \u00e9galement quelques unes de nos propres ruelles pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9es. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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