Samana — Palm Plantations of Death
Photographs and text by Jan Smith On the road from Santo Domingo to Samaná there is stretch with many miles of oil palm plantations on each side of the highway. Within […]
Category Archives: Development
Strandbeests by Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen (born 1948) is a Dutch artist. In 1990, he began what he is known for today: building large mechanisms out of PVC that are able to move on […]
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests
Hidden City Festival 2013
The Dufala Brothers have been selected to be part of the Hidden City Festival in 2013. Their installation will be at Globe Dye Works, and will feature materials sourced through […]
Capitalism efficient? We can do so much better
By Richard Wolff What’s efficiency got to do with capitalism? The short answer is little or nothing. Economic and social collapses in Detroit, Cleveland and many other US cities did […]
Only art can save us now
The world needs creative interpretations of global issues, not better descriptions of things people are accustomed to. by Santiago Zabala Perhaps rather than God, as Martin Heidegger once said, […]
Nun’s Island Is Awesome!
For years I have been an outspoken critic about the rampant development on Nun’s Island. Every time a new highrise goes up there is at least a couple hundred more […]
Developer Buys Griffintown Horse Palace
Some nice ideas brought up, but basically they can do what they want with it. Developer buys historic Griffintown Horse Palace By Allison Lampert and Marian Scott, The Gazette March 7, […]
Pimento #45: Montreal Cityscape
Another excellent Pimento Report shows how Tremblay’s City Hall doesn’t actually play by any rules, let alone their own, when it comes to development in the city. The Tremblay era has been erratically destroying […]
Montreal Failure To Fight Sprawl Is A Corrupt/Inefficient City Hall
“It’s odd. City hall has the power to determine a condo building’s number of floors, its number of units and even its number of parking spots. But it doesn’t have […]
Madrid Rio
Awesome reclamation project in Madrid, Spain, shows us once again how Turcot is shaping up as a totally blown opportunity. As cities around the world tear down elevated freeways, eliminate […]
Stop Mayor Applebaum’s sudden plan to take back the Empress Cultural Centre
Monday, August 15 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm 5151 Cote St. Catherine (opposite the Segal Centre) Metro Cote St. Catherine *FRIENDS OF THE EMPRESS* It has come to the attention of […]
Sauvons le bois Angell – Save Angell Woods
We are running out of nature on the Island of Montreal and developers are going after what’s left. We need these valuable green spaces like Angell Woods! “The City of […]
A Placemaking Testimonial From Côte Saint-Luc, Montreal
Project for Public Spaces was invited by the city of Cote Saint Luc to hold a Placemaking workshop with city employees last fall. This is something that we need to […]
Snowdon Committee Ready To Fight City Hall
Yet another part of the city has been promised to condo developers who plan to rip the heritage right off an important block on Queen Mary in Snowdon. Being near […]
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