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Category Archives: Development

Samana — Palm Plantations of Death

June 7, 2014by neath 1 Comment

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 […]

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Development, Photographs, Photojournalism

Strandbeests by Theo Jansen

July 24, 2013by neath 2 Comments

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 […]

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Development, environment, Science

Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests

May 21, 2013by neath Leave a comment
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Art, Beach, Development

Hidden City Festival 2013

April 19, 2013by neath Leave a comment

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 […]

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Development, Urban Reclamation, Video

Capitalism efficient? We can do so much better

April 15, 2013by neath Leave a comment

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 […]

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Capitalism, Corporate Capitalism, Development, History

Only art can save us now

April 15, 2013by neath Leave a comment

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, […]

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Community, Development, Globalization

Nun’s Island Is Awesome!

April 9, 2013by neath 1 Comment

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 […]

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Development, Exhibition, Photographs

Developer Buys Griffintown Horse Palace

March 9, 2012by neath 3 Comments

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, […]

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Development, Griffintown Horse Palace, Griifintown

Pimento #45: Montreal Cityscape

March 7, 2012by neath Leave a comment

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 […]

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City Hall, Development, Montreal, Video

Montreal Failure To Fight Sprawl Is A Corrupt/Inefficient City Hall

February 11, 2012by neath 2 Comments

“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 […]

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City Hall, Development, Sprawl

Madrid Rio

December 27, 2011by neath 3 Comments

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 […]

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Development, environment, freeway, Madrid Rio, Reclaimation, Video

Stop Mayor Applebaum’s sudden plan to take back the Empress Cultural Centre

August 15, 2011by neath Leave a comment

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 […]

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Activism, Community, Development, Urban

Sauvons le bois Angell – Save Angell Woods

May 9, 2011by neath 1 Comment

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 […]

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Activism, Development

A Placemaking Testimonial From Côte Saint-Luc, Montreal

January 2, 2011by neath Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cote Saint Luc, Development, Photography

Snowdon Committee Ready To Fight City Hall

December 22, 2010by neath Leave a comment

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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Activism, City Hall, Development, Snowdon

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