Montreal Indoor Freezing

Juste like the NYC Central Station stunt, a bunch of people met and froze on saturday feb, 23rd at precisley 18h15... and I was one of them! My roommate filmed a minute or so of it, so here's a little video, but a Concordia student will be posting much better stuff soon.

The Notre-Dame Highway Project: Can we avoid this failure?

Sign the petition here. There will also be regular updates via rss on the right hand column of this blog.

GreenDating Second Edition - Networking Night

This will take place thursday evening, and from what I understood, it's going to be packed. The 8$ at the door should be well spent if you want to meet professionals. So don't forget to bring you business cards and laundry peg (don't ask)

Already February!

My, my, oh my, January went so fast, I haven't had the time to update you folks!
Thanks to Lauren, Danielle and Shannon, I do have some nice little links to display for the time being.
For the landscape lovers who are up to here with the jargon, you'll be able to have a laugh out of it right here
Looking to know how walkable is your study area? Shannon recommends WalkScore

Finally, Danielle sent me an interesting link on this californian project where a local organization wants to transform Alcatraz into a Global Peace Center.

From what I saw online, the project is ambitious and kind of appealing on paper, but visually speaking, it's like seeing tie-die getting upgraded to web 2.0.

Creative City Network of Canada

"An organization of people employed by municipalities across Canada working on arts, culture and heritage policy, planning, development and support."
Here's their latest newlestter

Le site est bilingue, mais pour l'équivalent au Québec, il faut aller voir Les arts et la ville

Shadow Cities

Robert Neuwirth's look on shanty towns. The last five minutes are particularly interesting for planners.