Tag Archives: Montréal Urban Planning

Abandoning the Maison Radio-Canada is as unwise as it is unethical

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Taylor C. Noakes

So once upon a time there was a large, densely populated working class neighbourhood just east of Old Montreal informally called the ‘Faubourg à m’lasse’. The estimate is that in the early 1960s roughly 5,000 people lived there occupying 678 … Continue reading →

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Tempest in a Teapot

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Taylor C. Noakes

Story out today in the Journal de Montréal about how the Azur Métro cars will be ‘too big and too heavy’ to operate in our Métro tunnels and that work had to be done to adjust the infrastructure so as … Continue reading →

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Pointe-à-Callière Going Underground

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Taylor C. Noakes

The Pointe-à-Callière historical and archeological museum is going underground and expanding for the city’s 375th anniversary. Perhaps borrowing a cue from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (whose pavilions are connected underground though unfortunately still not directly accessible from the … Continue reading →

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Montreal’s Public School Crisis

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Taylor C. Noakes

This is really disturbing. A recent Radio-Canada report has shed some light on what might be the greatest case of long-term negligence in our province’s history of neglecting civic infrastructure. 82 public schools administered by the Commission Scolaire de Montréal … Continue reading →

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Skyline to Change, Condo Ghetto Unlikely

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Taylor C. Noakes

I’ve been meaning to talk about this for a while, but Bill 60 got in the way… Cadillac Fairview corporation (the real estate arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the single best performing pension plan in the entire world) … Continue reading →

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Deurbanization in Montreal’s City Centre

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Taylor C. Noakes

I came across the above photograph browsing Flickr a while back and was struck what an excellent representation it is of the deurbanization of Montreal’s city centre – there was once a rather vibrant community south of Saint Antoine Street. … Continue reading →

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