Across the Spacing urban blog network each week we're asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us know their favourite things about their respective city. THIS WEEK: What is your favourite pedestrian bridge(s) in Montreal? If possible, please provide a link to a photo you are commenting about. We suggest using Flickr as the photographers that use this site usually provide the best quality images (and often with ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Long-time supporter of Spacing, Robert Ouellette, wants residents of Canadian cities to take part in his new project called MESH Cities. Whether they knew it or not, anyone who followed Toronto’s Port Land debacle over the last few weeks got a first-hand introduction to the power MESH Cities have to shape our communities. Let me explain. We’ve been hearing a lot about so-called “smart” cities in the news recently as the major computing and infrastructure players like IBM, Cisco, GE, and Siemens look at the next frontier in the trend towards ubiquitous computing. That new frontier is our cities. Whatever you might think about a computer-driven modernity, MESH Cities are not just smart cities. MESH Cities go beyond the management of infrastructure to the heart of what makes cities worthwhile—their livability. Metaphorically, MESH Cities are the offspring of an improbable marriage between Jane Jacobs' ideals and ubiquitous city computing. Their kids, in this context, are named MESH: M=Mobile, E=Efficient, S=Subtle, H=Heuristics This is how the www.meshcities.com website introduces the concept.

[caption id="attachment_11900" align="alignnone" width="550" caption="Intermittence © Danièle Routaboule"][/caption] Article par Andréanne Chevalier Le plus grand ensemble souterrain au monde se trouve à Montréal, apparemment. Vous le connaissez probablement très bien: Trente kilomètres de tunnels qui relient des tours à bureaux, des commerces, des résidences, des universités. Mais êtes-vous déjà passés par le segment qui relie le Palais des congrès à l’immeuble de la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec? Discrète à cet endroit, la Maison de l’architecture du Québec y a un espace d’exposition où présentement, on peut voir ...

Photographer/Physicist-about-town, Daniel Cooper, captured this shot of a lightning bolt which appears to be smacking the BNP Paribas building on McGill College street during yesterday's thundershowers.

When: Tuesday, July 19, 7-10:30pm Where: National Arts Centre, 4th Stage 53 Elgin St. Cost: $5 (gets you copy of magazine) Facebook: RSVP to our event listing PARTNER: National Arts Centre Panelists: Matthew Blackett (Spacing publisher) moderator, George Dark (partner at Urban Strategies, urban designer & landscape architect), Allegra Newman (community planning advocate), Evan Thornton (Spacing Ottawa editor) MONTREAL When: Wednesday, July 20, 6:30-9pm Where: 690 Sherbrooke Street West with event on Victoria Street (adjacent to the McCord Museum) between Sherbrooke and President Kennedy Cost: Free! $5 ...