{"id":3745,"date":"2008-11-03T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/11\/03\/montreal-monday-concrete-jungles-city-branding-and\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T14:00:41","slug":"montreal-monday-concrete-jungles-city-branding-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/11\/03\/montreal-monday-concrete-jungles-city-branding-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al Monday: Concrete jungles, city-branding, and"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3006\/2977883071_2e1a876d97.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/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; Most people probably don&#8217;t look at a city&#8217;s steel and glass buildings, asphalt roads, and pollution and think about rain forest eco-systems but Alanah Heffez digs up some old university environmental science knowledge and creates <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/27\/mind-the-gap-what-the-tropical-jungle-can-teach-the-concrete-jungle-about-diversity\/\">a real interesting metaphor<\/a> about the concrete and the not-so concrete jungles.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Greater Montr&eacute;al, which contains 78 municipalities and over 3-and-a-half million people, has just creating its own brand in order to try to promote itself internationally. With a price tag of almost $500, 000, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/29\/room-to-make-it-real\/\">take a look for yourself<\/a> and think about what you would have put that money towards.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; With autumn rolling in quick and turning most of our foliage from &#8220;beautiful&#8221; to &#8220;bagged-at-the-curb&#8221;, here&#8217;s another great <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/29\/le-mardi-des-arbres-larbre-aux-abricots-argentes-le-ginkgo\/\">Tree Tuesday post<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.ca\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/29\/le-mardi-des-arbres-larbre-aux-abricots-argentes-le-ginkgo\/&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=result&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3Dles%2Barbres%2Babricot%2Bspacing%2Bmontreal%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DXF9%26sa%3DG\">English<\/a>) from Bronwyn Chester about ginkgo biloba and the efficiency of French arboreal terms.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by Alanah Heffez<\/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; Most people probably don&#8217;t look at a city&#8217;s steel and glass buildings, asphalt roads, and pollution and think about<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/11\/03\/montreal-monday-concrete-jungles-city-branding-and\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montr\u00e9al Monday: Concrete jungles, city-branding, and&#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":[9982,38,10744,762,19,391],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-bronwyn-chester","tag-montreal","tag-rain-forest-eco-systems","tag-steel","tag-toronto","tag-usd"],"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: Concrete jungles, city-branding, and  - 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\/11\/03\/montreal-monday-concrete-jungles-city-branding-and\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montr\u00e9al Monday: Concrete jungles, city-branding, and  - 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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