“For me, walking has become less physical transit than mental transportation. It is engaging. I have become, I fear, a difficult walking companion, liable to slow down and point at […]
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PostArctica: Housing March, World Social Forum, Montreal, 2016
Today, along with a few friends from the CACV in Verdun, we marched with numerous community housing groups from Cote des Neiges, Montreal, and across Quebec to the site of […]
PostArctica: Walk # 12
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into […]
PostArctica: Walk # 11
“Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors…disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same […]
PostArctica: Walk #10
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” – Steven Wright Started off at Sherbrooke Metro. The view south. The view north. Apartment building on Rigaud. Mural on building […]
PostArctica: Walk # 9
“After a day’s walk everything has twice its usual value.” — George Macauley Trevelyan Starting Point: Dollard and Newman in Lasalle. Bus let me off here. Headed south on Dollard […]
Things Are Good: Cities Designed for Walking Attract Smart People
The human population of the world is urbanizing, but some places are performing better than others. The key to making a good modern and productive city is to make it walkable. Design for people, not cars. Over at BBC autos they took a look at what attracts smart people to the smartest cities and it […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: Bus Stop With Dirt Picture
Realized lately that two projects that I have had going in the last couple of years, Bus Stops and Dirt, have started interacting. Not sure I completely approve, yet, it […]
PostArctica: Walk # 8
“Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use…time […]
PostArctica: At Last, Intergalactic Peace!
I have joked about seeing traffic cones everywhere this summer, even suggesting they are actually aliens in an upcoming post. But today I looked out my window and saw that […]
PostArctica: Orage du 20 juin 2016
Incredible shot in Montreal by one of my favorite photographers, Mario Jean, also known as MADOC.
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Continue readingPostArctica: Walk #7 – Completing The Circle
“This is what I had come for, just this, and nothing more. A fling of leafy motion on the cliffs, the assault of real things, living and still, with shapes […]
PostArctica: Walk # 6 – Over The Mountain
“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.” ― Bridget […]
PostArctica: Walk # 5 –
“Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking […]
Things Are Good: Why Some Love Cities And Others Love The Country
The idea that cities are inherently stressful or that the country is inherently calming isn’t so cut and dry. Some people find the excitement of urban living as not only exciting but also as a source of relaxation. Others may find the boringness of the countryside as a required way to maintain mental calmness. There’s […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: Fantastic Night In Verdun
Friday evening was a celebration of a wonderful project started over a year ago by the Comité d’action des citoyennes et citoyens de Verdun (CACV). The basic idea is to […]
PostArctica: Great Day At Dawson Community Centre.
I went to dances at this place as a teenager so it’s extra cool to have had a chance to hang out today at the annual Race for Kids/ Street […]
PostArctica: Walk # 4 – Miron
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you’re in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the […]
Things Are Good: Supporting Bicycles is a Good Idea for Cities
Torontoist is a blog focused on, you guessed it, Toronto and they recently ran a series of posts about bike lanes. It’s not all about Toronto as they pull data from New York and tout Strasbourg as an inspiration that Toronto ought to follow. The success of cycling infrastructure in Strasbourg is a result of […]
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Continue readingPostArctica: Walk # 3 – The Road To Miron
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when […]