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  Is Overdevelopment Just Par for the Course?

  Michael Wrobel – Updated February 10, 2015 at 9:15am

  For 25 years, activists and housing developers have fought over the Meadowbrook Golf Course. On Jan. 29, Montreal’s agglomeration council finally waded into the debate, approving a new land-use plan that calls for Meadowbrook to be rezoned from “residential” to “large green space or recreational.”

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  Sous la Peau de la Ville: a Reflection on Informal Architecture

  June Loper – Updated February 10, 2015 at 9:15am

  Montreal’s Centre for Sustainability presents the exhibition Sous la peau de la ville by Linda-Marlena Bucholtz Ross, raising a number of questions on our cultural relation with space and what symbolic meaning there is behind different spatial practices.

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  How (In)Accessible is Montreal?

  Mattha Busby – Updated February 10, 2015 at 9:14am

  Accessible or inaccessible, lift or no lift, stairs or ramp, announcements or silence—these dualisms are inescapable in the daily life of those with limited mobility

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  The Memory Keeper of New York City

  Athina Lugez – Updated February 10, 2015 at 7:06am

  In today’s gentrified New York City contaminated by bourgeois bohemians, it’s difficult to imagine how the sleepless Big Apple was once a cesspool of poverty and crime. Collective memories and photographs now serve as reminders of the city’s grittier days.

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  The Beloved Island

  Jane Gatensby – Published February 10, 2015

  “It feels real—it feels like real Montreal. It’s not pretty, but it’s a kind of a different type of beauty: real, cool, relaxed, urban and sexy. That’s the Montreal that I like.”

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  A Modern Urban Jungle

  Michelle Pucci – Published February 10, 2015

  In the corner of the Mile End, behind the industrial buildings and near the train tracks residents often cross illegally, there’s a stretch of land locals refer to as the “Champ des Possibles.”

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  Science & Technology Microsite

  The Link – Updated January 14, 2015 at 5:26am

  Check it out here!

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  The Pixel Is Mightier Than the Sword

  Nick Rudzicz – Updated January 13, 2015 at 11:46pm

  Violence is in fact endemic to the current market, not the medium, but the “indie” scene is not some cleansing force for the pacification of games.

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  Seeing Through the Dark

  Vince Morello – Published January 13, 2015

  Montreal has become a hub for the video game industry, with household names like Ubisoft and EA setting up shop in the city.

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  Off-Road Righteousness

  Alex Ocheoha – Updated January 13, 2015 at 8:37am

  The Baja racing team at Concordia has set lofty goals of top ten finishes in all competitions they’re slated to compete in this year. Preparation for their first race is already underway.