Tag Archive for the term: history

Montrealers!! The Ice Storm of 98!! This week’s the 10 year anniversary of our very own natural disaster. It was a wonderful, magical, mysterious and very harrowing experience. Like any big historical event, we all have our “where were you” stories. It’s truly such a part of our city’s collective consciousness.
It’s wonderful to […]

When I was invited to participate in Design Montreal’s student workshop about the future of Place d’Armes, a historical square in Old Montreal, I expected to be the sole artsy in a room full of technically-trained urban planning students and lanscape architects. Turns out I haven’t seen such an eclectic spectacle since Indyish’s last Monthly […]

I’m usually reluctant to let city planners lose on our precious public spaces - especially ones with great historical significance like Place d’Armes. However, an afternoon spent in the square revealed to me that there is indeed room for improvement in the site’s design. For one thing, the square is disconnected from the urban fabric, an island lost in a sea of traffic and tour busses.

Susie Bright is passing on a hollar for help from a friend who’s in San Francisco doing an oral history project on the origins and dirty secrets of Punk. He finds himself in serious need of a swifty sympathetic volunteer typist, so now you can be one of the first people to hear these recordings, […]