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.
• In A condo tower done right, Christopher DeWolf makes a case for Louis Bohà¨me, a residential development under construction in Montréal at the corner of Bleury and de Maisonneuve. Compare his thoughts with this post by Duncan Patterson on Spacing Toronto, about the plans for the Queen West Triangle.
• Montréal’s suburban villages: Sainte Anne de Bellevue offers words and pictures on the history, attractions, and culture of an old town in suburban Montréal. The photo above was taken in Sainte Anne de Bellevue. What would some of Toronto’s satellite communities look like today if they’d been founded in 1701?
• Greening Montréal’s laneways reports on efforts to turn alleyways in the Plateau neighbourhood into “country lanes.” Sounds like a perfect venue for a Montréal version of Alley Jaunt.
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Something similar to Alley Jaunt took place here in 2004, when an alley behind Park Avenue in Mile End was taken over by a YMCA-organized art festival called Ruelle en fà ªte. It was pretty successful so I’m not sure why there weren’t any subsequent editions.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherdewolf/tags/ruelleenf%EAte
I love this image, we should have these all over toronto, except somehow add that all the salt is also going into the lake! The water running into the don river today must be pure salt.