Tag Archives: Urban design issues
The Case for Cabot Square
Poor John Cabot, we hardly new ye. Most people don’t know who he is or why there’s a sizeable chunk of prime downtown property in a state of seemingly perpetual disrepair named after him. In fact, it’s not even actually … Continue reading
Posted in A modest proposal, Commentary, History and Culture, Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Let's make this an election issue, Montréal Architecture, Montréal Landmarks, Perspectives on the City, Photographs, Scenes from the City, Urban Redevelopment, What were they thinking?, Worth reconsidering
Tagged Atwater Avenue, Cabot Square, Dawson College, History of Montreal, Montréal Architecture, Montréal Design, Montréal Landmarks, Montréal public-space, Montréal Urban Design, Montreal Forum, Montreal History, Parks in Montreal, Public Transit in Montreal, STM, Urban design issues, Urban Squares in Montreal, Westmount
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Austerity Measures & Bad Design in Montreal Public Transit
Not exactly the kind of news regular users of Montreal’s public transit system want to hear, but it looks like the city’s public transit agency is facing a budget shortfall of $20 million, and this apparently is going to result … Continue reading
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Tagged Design, Métro de Montréal, Metro of Montreal, Montréal Design, Montréal public-transit, Montréal Urban Design, Public Transit in Montreal, STM, Urban design issues
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Cité des Familles
François Cardinal asks an important question – is the city wasting its time trying to prevent the exodus of families to the suburbs? In the last ten years, during which time the city has ‘officially’ been trying to reverse this … Continue reading
Posted in A modest proposal, Economic commentary, Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Let's make this an election issue, Montréal Architecture, Social commentary, Urban Redevelopment, Worth reconsidering
Tagged Cultural Commentary, Montréal City Planning, Montréal City Politics, Montréal Downtown, Montréal Real Estate, Residential Living in Montreal, Social Commentary, Urban design issues, Urban Redevelopment
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Montreal’s Infrastructure Storm – Public transit to the rescue?
A Montreal Gazette article from August 25th 2011 detailed what is being described as a perfect storm of simultaneous, overlapping infrastructure projects which may ‘paralyze’ transit on island and in parts of the metropolitan region by 2015, less than four … Continue reading
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Tagged Montréal Bridges, Montréal Infrastructure, Montréal Métro, Montréal public-transit, Turcot Interchange, Urban design issues, Urban Redevelopment
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What to do with the Shell Refinery
A little while back I saw this post on Coolopolis and it got me thinking – what would I do, if I were Mayor, with this rather fortuitous recent development. As it stands, my understanding is that there is only … Continue reading
Covering Over Modernity
This here’s a photo of what Montreal looked like back in the early 1930s. To situate yourself, first you’re looking ‘Montreal east’ – that’s the Jacques-Cartier Bridge under construction, and by my guess I think the airplane was flying near … Continue reading →
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