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.
• Turn on the red light details the City of Montréal’s plans to demolish a cornerstone building in the now-dwindling red light district so that a new cultural centre can be constructed. It makes you wonder: what if this — instead of a piddly parking lot — had been the announced fate of the Matador?
• Market day at Place Jacques Cartier travels back to a previous incarnation of the east end of Old Montréal — a time before the area was given over to tourism. It sounds a lot like Kensington Market today.
• Can you imagine Toronto’s roads without passing and dividing lines? Les lignes séparatrices discusses how, not too long ago, a major Montréal street was but bare pavement.