[caption id="attachment_13126" align="alignleft" width="565" caption="The so-called "prototypical average suburban American white middle-class family". Source: ThirdAge.com"][/caption] One of the most politically charged and ideologically loaded question in the field of metropolitan studies is that which concerns people's motivations to live where they live within a given urban region - i.e., why some people choose the suburbs over the city, or the countryside over the suburbs, etc. In the US, this question has strong racial overtones because of the raging debate (outside of academia, mostly) as to whether black ...

[caption id="attachment_12820" align="alignleft" width="621" caption="Membres de la Commission de l'aménagement de la CMM. Crédit photo: CMM"][/caption] La nouvelle n'est plus très fraîche, mais cela ne peut pas faire de tort que de le répéter: le Plan métropolitain d'aménagement et développement (PMAD) - le premier plan régional de l'histoire du Grand Montréal - a finalement été adopté le 7 décembre dernier par le Conseil de la Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM). L'adoption du PMAD n'a surpris personne, puisque Montréal, Longueuil et les municipalités de la couronne ...

___ There is an apparent contradiction, some would say, between the philosophical/ethical regionalist stance and cosmopolitanism. Regionalism, after all, concerns itself with our (human beings') embeddedness in the ecological, social and economic systems that surround us. It is founded upon the idea that there exist important natural and social phenomena which cannot be apprehended, comprehended and/or acted upon by local, national or international political and ...

[caption id="attachment_11922" align="alignleft" width="568" caption="Portrait of Stalin, from Robert Huffstutter (roberthuffstutter on Flickr)"][/caption] The recent (and current) discussions regarding the MMC’s proposed regional land-use and development plan have exposed (but not addressed) an important issue that underlies the entire debate: is there a theoretical justification for regionalism and if so, what is it? Those who oppose regionalism and its manifestations will often try and discredit regional planning efforts by claiming that regionalism is merely and ideology – i.e., a normative view ...

Paysages et pièges de mon parcours de 16km quotidien vers le nord de Laval l'an dernier. Celui de cette année sera un peu moins nord, mais plus ouest: 19km(x2). Tout recommence demain! On mettra le diaporama en plein écran et cliquera «afficher les infos» pour l'explication des photos. On peut aussi ralentir leur défilement.