Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities, though we’ll settle for some witty jibes against la Ville reine in the comments. PUG Awards: And the winner is? : Since 2004, the PUG Awards celebrate new construction in the (former unamalgamated) City of Toronto by asking the public to pick favourites and well, lemons. Although the requirements for entry are rather restricted (over 50,000 square feet in the residential ...

  Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities, though we’ll settle for some witty jibes against la Ville reine in the comments. The future of the Gardiner Expressway : The Gardiner Expressway, Toronto's elevated highway (much like the Metropolitain here), will be dismantled between Jarvis Street and the Don Valley Parkway. In its place is planned an 8 lane boulevard that should see traffic within 4 years. In an other Gardiner related story, the ...

Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities, though we’ll settle for some witty jibes against la Ville reine in the comments. Does Toronto need an Urban Centre? : Following the closure of Ballenford Books, Toronto is left with no physical venue where the city's urban issues are exhibited and debated. Shawn Micallef imagines the creation of a Toronto Urban Centre. As much a museum as a research centre, it would THE ...

Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities, though we’ll settle for some witty jibes against la Ville reine in the comments. The nostalgia of phone booths :  Ceding to the advance of cellular technology, public phone booths are quickly disappearing from our streets. In an effort to capture some of the last remaining "retro" booths in Toronto, Matthew Blackett walked the CNE grounds armed with his camera. Screen doors on subway ...

QUOI: Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal QUAND: samedi 17 mai et dimanche 18 mai OÙ: CEDA, 2515 rue Delisle (métro Lionel-Groulx) Le salon annuel du livre anarchiste de Montréal est de retour avec sa neuvième édition.  C'est encore au CEDA que les activités prendront place: kiosques, projections, ateliers, conférences et activités pour enfants. Plus d'information est disponible sur le site officiel du salon www.salonanarchiste.ca. C'est une belle occasion de rencontrer certains groupes d'activistes de Montréal (et d'ailleurs), ou simplement de découvrir livres et auteurs traitant de la réappropriation de notre espace commun. Les sujets sont tellement variés et ...