Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montréal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.
• Here’s something to envy: Michel Dallaire to design new downtown street furniture. The plan sound much better than anything Toronto’s installed recently; Le Devoir‘s headline on the acclaimed designer’s elegant mock-ups reads “Lovers will kiss on new public benches.”
• A car-free street in downtown Montréal? Christopher DeWolf makes a case for it in Keep de Maisonneuve closed to traffic. He suggests adding benches and greenery — like Toronto did to part of Yonge a few decades ago (read about that in the latest issue of Spacing).
• Bibliothà¨que nationale to preserve posters details a new partnership between an ad agency and Bibliothà¨que et Archives nationales du Québec. Too bad independent posterers aren’t in on the deal; according to the post, Montréal has even fewer legal poster spaces than Toronto.
