{"id":3707,"date":"2008-10-20T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/10\/20\/montreal-monday-design-ideas\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:00:24","slug":"montreal-monday-design-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/20\/montreal-monday-design-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al Monday: Design ideas?, immigration, and mega-ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img-m2-2a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"182\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\"><em>Spacing Montr&eacute;al<\/em><\/a><em>. 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; Montr&eacute;al Mayor Gerald Tremblay challenged designers, architects, city planners, and the media to devise solutions for <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/15\/mayors-launches-5-shukos-at-pecha-kucha-night\/\">five issues around the city<\/a>: 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.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; It might not come as a surprise that immigration rates are growing in Montr&eacute;al, but it&#8217;s interesting to see that there has been <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/17\/the-where-of-newly-immigrated-residents-in-montreal\/\">a big shift<\/a> in settlement patterns within the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; The borough of Ville Marie is the only place in Montr&eacute;al (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 <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/18\/ville-maries-mega-ads\/\">to follow suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo from <\/em><em>from shukomontreal.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, we 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; Montr&eacute;al Mayor Gerald Tremblay challenged designers, architects, city planners, and the media to devise solutions for five issues around<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/20\/montreal-monday-design-ideas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montr\u00e9al Monday: Design ideas?, immigration, and mega-ads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4057,"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":[10604,457,10376,359,469,19],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-10604","tag-canada","tag-gerald-tremblay","tag-london","tag-new-york","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: Design ideas?, immigration, and mega-ads - 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\/2008\/10\/20\/montreal-monday-design-ideas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montr\u00e9al Monday: Design ideas?, immigration, and mega-ads - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. 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