Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.
• The new home of the Orchestra Symphonique de Montreal (pictured) will be Quebec’s first cultural building to be funded with a public-private partnership. Normally used to build hospitals, highways and airports, Timea Jakob looks at the advantages and drawbacks of bankrolling the hall is such a fashion.
• In contemporary urban planning, two schools of thought remain in vogue that in many ways are dictating the future of cities. Alanah Heffez compares Big Bang planning – which promotes large-scale projects – to Emergent Urbanism as articulated by Canadian urban theorist Mathieu Helie – which favours self-organization and complexity.
• Bronwyn Chester stalks the walnut tree as she explores three sites in Montreal featuring these self-seeding arboreals.