PostArctica: Outdoor Staircases in Montreal

These exterior staircases make a street dance, there are visual rhythms along otherwise dull avenues, there is an interaction amongst neighbors that wouldn’t happen with interior staircases, all part of that wonderful streetscene that Jane Jacobs so accurately described… Spiral Staircases in Verdun “Under the seeming disorder of the old

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PostArctica: Victor Lane

Took a walk down Victor Lane the other day. It runs behind the north side of Wellington from Strathmore down to Hickson. There are three lanes in Verdun that have names. Can you name the other two? Fire Escapes on the back of the old Palace Theater building.

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PostArctica: Hare Krishna

So the joke on the street last week was that if these folks are strolling around town then maybe Verdun really is becoming the “Next Plateau.”  Always nice to think that someone, who isn’t selling something, may have a favorable opinion of your ‘hood. Still I recall in the mid

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PostArctica: Hare Krishna

So the joke on the street last week was that if these folks are strolling around town then maybe Verdun really is becoming the “Next Plateau.”  Always nice to think that someone, who isn’t selling something, may have a favorable opinion of your ‘hood. Still I recall in the mid

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