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.
• Bollards, those big poles used to separate motor vehicles from pedestrians, usually are an over-looked piece of infrastructure that functions without any style or flair, but take a look at what Taipei has done with theirs.
• Just like the PATH here in Toronto, the appeal of Montréal’s Underground City is hampered by all the stores and advertisements, not to mention being hard to navigate. So when the frigid winter winds blast through downtown Montréal, what indoor public spaces do residents have to turn to? Alanah Heffez tells us her top three, free, indoor places to be.
• Christopher DeWolf looks into the cultural phenomenon of a nearly 50-year-old grocery chain and how, over a decade after its demise, the ghost of Steinberg’s is still strong in Montréal.
