Each Monday, we 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.
• Montréal Mayor Gerald Tremblay challenged designers, architects, city planners, and the media to devise solutions for five issues around the city: what to do with an old expressway/soon to be public space, making a windowless building (pictured above) into a work of art, designing bus shelters to be more inviting to commuters, developing a signature look for cabs like in New York and London, and street furniture for the Quartier des Spectacles area.
• It might not come as a surprise that immigration rates are growing in Montréal, but it’s interesting to see that there has been a big shift in settlement patterns within the last 20 years.
• The borough of Ville Marie is the only place in Montréal (and one of only two places in Canada) that allows major ads put up on construction sites, and the people behind it are trying to get other areas to follow suit.
photo from from shukomontreal.com.
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I haven’t seen the Todays’s Headlines section in Spacing Montreal for a while.
What’s going?
I used to look so forward to seeing what was going on in my old home city.
Aside from seeing where the federal government spends Toronto tax dollars, why would I care about Montreal?