{"id":2584,"date":"2007-12-17T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2007-12-17T18:34:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:34:30","slug":"montreal-monday-2007-12-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/17\/montreal-monday-2007-12-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al Monday &#8212; makeout benches, keeping the cars out, and poster-ity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2396\/1539206716_07535349e4.jpg?v=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\">Spacing Montr&eacute;al<\/a>. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&bull; Here&#8217;s something to envy: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?p=384\">Michel Dallaire to design new downtown street furniture<\/a>. The plan sound much better than anything Toronto&#8217;s installed recently; <em>Le Devoir<\/em>&#8216;s headline on the acclaimed designer&#8217;s elegant mock-ups reads &#8220;Lovers will kiss on new public benches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; A car-free street in downtown Montr&eacute;al? Christopher DeWolf makes a case for it in <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?p=375\">Keep de Maisonneuve closed to traffic<\/a>. He suggests adding benches and greenery &#8212; like Toronto did to part of Yonge a few decades ago (read about that in the latest issue of <em>Spacing<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&bull; <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?p=369\">Biblioth\u00e0\u00a8que nationale to preserve posters<\/a> details a new partnership between an ad agency and Biblioth\u00e0\u00a8que et Archives nationales du Qu&eacute;bec. Too bad independent posterers aren&#8217;t in on the deal; according to the post, Montr&eacute;al has even fewer legal poster spaces than Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. &bull; Here&#8217;s something to envy: Michel Dallaire to design new downtown street furniture. The plan sound much better than<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/17\/montreal-monday-2007-12-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montr\u00e9al Monday &#8212; makeout benches, keeping the cars out, and poster-ity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7657,7654,1582,7656,7655,38,19],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-acclaimed-designer","tag-car-free-street","tag-christopher-dewolf","tag-le-devoir","tag-michel-dallaire","tag-montreal","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montr\u00e9al Monday - makeout benches, keeping the cars out, and poster-ity - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/17\/montreal-monday-2007-12-17\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montr\u00e9al Monday - makeout benches, keeping the cars out, and poster-ity - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. 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