https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/home daily 0.75 2017-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1493668339003-1D2AXBJ8QWRMOXPCHM3W/15M-1024x683.jpg Home https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/welcome daily 1.0 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1558468516029-J40Y8UC752KUC10UJ6W3/Citie+x+Citizens+new+logo.png Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1496800910615-WPCGBLCF745SO7PS56OP/Picture1.jpg Welcome - Puzzle Accessibility and walkability in the fragmented city https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1496801644945-QF4G3OSSC64HPCW5VEJT/image-asset.jpeg Welcome - Right up your alley! Revitalization of service alleyway in downtown Montreal (Alleyway Bishop/Mackay) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1711646814542-1AFVZDH9Z4T0JLHQ4L5K/Bruno_cover+photo.jpg Welcome - Reclaiming the smart city Digital Governance and Citizen Agency in the Era of Plataform-ed Urban Ecosystems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/c9c31932-84cf-4c61-8e61-5d7c19faf626/The+Market+Language_credit+Judy+Chen.jpg Welcome - The Market Language Public Markets as Performative Social Place; with case studies on public markets in Montréal, Québec https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/0f513cb4-a2d0-4448-b205-995e874745a5/Open+Urbanism.jpg Welcome - Open Urbanisms Challenges and opportunities for open cities and boundless urban systems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/dd079dbd-5516-45a7-8e4b-959da7f5519c/Profile+Photo.jpg Welcome - Silvano De la Llata (Principal Investigator and founder) Silvano is an architect, urbanist and educator. He is an associate professor in planning and urban design at the Department of Geography Planning and Environment at Concordia University. He co-directs the Cluster of Design Art Community and Culture (along with Prof. Baron Thymas) at the Next Generation Cities Institute. Before his arrival to Concordia University, he taught at Cornell University, and universities of Tamaulipas and Anahuac in Mexico. For 15 years, his research has focused on public space and the study of alternative uses, such as street vending, graffiti, public assembly and protest, as design/planning agents. As a result of this research, he went on to study a PhD at Cornell University, and wrote his dissertation on alternative planning processes in the context of protest encampments in horizontal social movements. He did research and participated in the Indignados mobilizations in Barcelona, Occupy Wall Street and other social movements in 2011 and 2012. Building on this experience he founded CitiesXCitizens. Additionally, he coordinates brainstorming/reading circles on critical theory, philosophy and cinema to develop strategies to democratize everyday life in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1604683029385-3LBCDZAQU074LLOPSGFD/1581366474775.jpg Welcome - Sahar Alinezhad Sahar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Urbanism and her Master’s Degree in Urban Design. Her research interests focuses on the livability and conviviality of urban spaces as well as urban quality of life and wellbeing. Presently, her research focuses on collective gardens and self-organizing. More specifically, her research aims to identify if and how collective autonomous practices facilitate social inclusion processes in third places. Sahar aims to empower local communities to actively participate in decision-making processes for their neighborhood common spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/6496e56a-125f-4713-9846-80ae0647c627/IMG_1866.JPG Welcome - Judy Chen Judy is a Ph.D. Candidate in Geography, Urban, and Environmental Studies at Concordia University. She has a BSc degree in Agricultural Economics from National Taiwan University and holds two MSc degrees, one from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the other from University College London (UCL). Judy studied Urban Environment at UPenn and Environment & Sustainable Development at UCL. Her master research at UPenn focused on the economics of urban agriculture while at UCL her research revolved around the commodification of public spaces and urban design. Over the past 10 years Judy has accumulated work experience across the private, public, and civic sector. Judy’s research interests lie in urban planning, sustainable urban development, and urban architecture & design. The focus of her doctoral research is on public markets, with emphasis on public markets as spaces of encounter, cultural exchange and sociability. Judy is also a certified LEED Green Associate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1625675460910-DKKDAY4BV6X44FMXDMJ7/Bruno_pic.jpg Welcome - Bruno Mendonca Bruno Mendonca is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University. He received his BSc degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Bennett Methodist University Center and holds an MSc Degree in Architecture and a Professional Degree in Urban Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His master’s research focused on the spontaneous use of informal and interstitial public spaces for leisure and social interactions in low-income suburban neighborhoods crossed by railways in Rio de Janeiro. As a Research Assistant at the Cities by Citizens Research Lab (C²), Bruno has been working on a project that addresses pressing issues of urban fragmentation and accessibility in a site-specific case study in Montreal. Bruno has also worked in partnership with different stakeholders, in Brazil and abroad, in projects that have explored the development of participatory methodologies to engage citizens in urban design projects. Currently, the focus of Bruno’s doctoral research is to investigate how digital technology has shaped platform-ed cities by fostering novel governance structures, modes of expertise, and ways of knowing and co-designing urban spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1512062520734-IOTWCRLUPT7Y8T01V1MT/Hiba.jpg Welcome - Heba Alqub Heba received her Ph.D. in Geography, Urban, and Environmental studies at Concordia University. She got her Bachelor degree in Architecture from the University of Jordan in July 2011. After three years of practicing the profession in an Architectural consulting firm in Amman-Jordan, she got her master degree of Architecture- Post professional (UDH) Program: Urban Design and Housing at McGill university. Her master research revolves around reviving traditions and cultural values in contemporary Arab-Islamic Architecture, which allows for a deeper understanding of design as both method and production. At the present time, Heba’s passion in the public realm of open spaces and the ways users tend to use the space differently from what it was initially intended to provide, has shaped her current interest and research area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1625675842331-CZ6TDFO3E5G971U0ZTYJ/Nathan_pic.JPG Welcome - Nathan Powell Nathan received his M.Sc. in Geography, Urban, and Environmental Studies at Concordia University. He earned his Bachelor degree in Urban and Regional Studies at Cornell University in 2021. His studies revolves around the intersection of communication and planning, and, more broadly, public life. In this, he concerns himself with telling the stories of urban change makers and extracting the educational value in these stories. His work includes several independent podcast projects, an extended literary analysis of the role of political media pundits in the 2020 US presidential election, as well as several interviews in public stakeholders in the areas of planning, politics, culture, and society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1496933892016-AZFHDIVEI9WZB3QZK3Z1/image-asset.jpeg Welcome - mohammad manshaei Mohammad received his M.Sc. student in Geography, Urban and Environmental studies at Concordia University. With a background in architecture, and after some years of professional practice as a designer, now he is interested in investigating more about the role of architecture and design in shaping contemporary societies. His area of studies are architecture history, modernism, consumerism culture and design activism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1496932905737-E8KMQN9XRWT7SNJSM52C/going_public_elilarin3_low.jpg Welcome - Urban Diaries Urban Diaries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1496931446764-ZI7XLJNW6K2DXRIFTRSA/Cover.jpg Welcome - Parks as Community Platforms Redesign Of Two Park Sites In Côte-Des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-De-Grâce (Kent Park And NDG Park) Description: The Arrondissement Government of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce invited Concordia University and Université de Montreal to collaborate in the redesign of two sites in two parks in this district – Kent Park and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG Park). Under the coordination of Silvano De la Llata and with students as facilitators, the methods of planning-in-situ and open planning were tested for the first time in this two parks. After a thorough analysis, intense collaboration with the borough government and two community charrettes we learned that interactivity, versatility and social permeability were the most important values to enhance this parks as well as that stakeholders largely liked their parks as they were. Therefore it was proposed that the sites were enhanced and turned into community platforms that citizens could appropriate and adapt according to their needs. The ideas produced in these exercises were later partially adopted and adapted by design firms and the city. These two sites have been built and soon will be inaugurated. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog daily 0.75 2023-05-29 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/12/1/kids-play monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/11/29/big-streets-small-streets monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/11/15/night-darkness-and-precarity monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/11/11/is-data-privacy-todays-dystopia monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/11/11/gentrification-in-process-the-financialization-of-housing-in-the-global-city monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/10/28/spatial-inequalities-understanding-the-suburbs-of-rio-de-janeiro monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/10/27/surf-and-turf-what-the-city-of-montral-offers monthly 0.5 2021-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1635317700337-4933VY5K9SJN4MRXHO1A/trail.JPG Blog - Surf and turf: what the city of Montréal offers - Make it stand out Figure 1. The trail next to the rapids borders Habitat 67. This trail leads to the spot where surfers launch. Image source: Judy Chen. Montréal, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1635317720148-IMMQ1U2J1GOS6TS94ECK/habitat+67.JPG Blog - Surf and turf: what the city of Montréal offers - Make it stand out Figure 2. Habitat 67 housing complex. Image source: Judy Chen. Montréal, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1635317745058-7YLUK8XX46JCK4O9WUY5/surfers.JPG Blog - Surf and turf: what the city of Montréal offers - Make it stand out Figure 3. The surfers on the St. Lawrence River. It was truly an amazing experience to see real surfers in the middle of the city. Image source: Judy Chen. Montréal, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1635344704423-51MZHV7NX5FZKLK0TER9/surf+gif.gif Blog - Surf and turf: what the city of Montréal offers - Make it stand out Figure 4. Surfing the Habitat 67 river wave. Surfing is a unique addition to the cityscape. Source: Judy Chen. Montréal, 2021. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/10/20/the-urban-sacrifice-notes-on-the-human-scale-by-andreas-dalsgaard monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/10/11/the-new-threat-the-old-paradigm-housing-homelessness-and-the-covid-19-crisis monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/9/27/alleviating-urban-economic-hardships-stocktons-24-month-ubi-experiment-offers-a-new-template monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/9/21/of-borders-and-island monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/9/17/pocket-libraries-in-the-city monthly 0.5 2021-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1631906743935-J3TODB0DKJFIKTAX5993/little+library_fig1.jpg Blog - Pocket libraries in the city - Make it stand out Figure 1. The free little library located outside Limestone Organic Creamery. Scones and books are the perfect pair for teatime. Image source: Judy Chen. Kingston, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1631906771156-DUKW0A0QOK73IW6P7QH8/little+library_fig2.jpg Blog - Pocket libraries in the city - Make it stand out Figure 2. An old backyard BBQ turned book-sharing box. I found this little library on a residential driveway while on my bike. Image source: Judy Chen. Pointe-Claire, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1631906794860-NWPPOXZ03VAX8M6J46FM/little+library_fig3.jpg Blog - Pocket libraries in the city - Make it stand out Figure 3. The Free Books shelf located outside Phoenix Books on Sherbrooke. The time when I went for photos they only had one book left on the shelf. Image source: Judy Chen. 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Vancouver Public Library Rooftop Public Garden. Image source: Sahar Alinezhad, Vancouver, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1630421949586-3SJ6G3SBOW845ADASLUH/Sahar_fig4.jpg Blog - Public Rooftop Garden and Respite in the City: Vancouver Public Library Central Branch Rooftop Garden - Make it stand out Figure 2. Vancouver Public Library Rooftop Public Garden, view of the BC Place. 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Typical ‘old’ scooter seen in Taipei city. Image source: Judy Chen. Taipei, 2017. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/8/10/using-gis-in-urban-forestry-mapping monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1628604597290-R07SCNO4O8EASZF0ZCNV/Bruno+short+story_fig2.jpg Blog - Using GIS in urban forestry mapping - Make it stand out Figure 1. The sequence of images illustrates the results of the urban forestry mapping stages in public and private areas of the city. Image source: Bruno Ragi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1628604635049-NHFZHC87GQ7R5J1T25X7/Bruno+short+story_fig3.jpg Blog - Using GIS in urban forestry mapping - Make it stand out Figure 2. Kernel density analysis showing the density of trees at Rio de Janeiro’s central region. This type of analysis has been used to point out the lack of trees in specific parts of the city and also to help the group better understand what kind of strategies can be developed to increase urban forestry across the city. Image source: Bruno Ragi. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/8/4/spotlight-how-dakar-is-working-to-alleviate-its-rampant-traffic-congestion monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/8/4/public-spaces-and-cities-open-access-publications-that-you-shouldnt-miss monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/8/2/urban-planning-as-a-catalyst-tool-the-case-of-israel-and-palestine monthly 0.5 2024-07-24 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/29/promenading-living-room-in-public monthly 0.5 2021-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1627613368494-64RI2KB36FY5D00V33XE/Liiving+room_fig1.jpg Blog - Promenading living room in public - Make it stand out Figure 1. The Living Room. The living room has a doorway, some chairs, a window and a television. Image source: Judy Chen. Ottawa, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1627613428170-YAQPSBS2LNBH9RMR70C6/Living+room_fig2.png Blog - Promenading living room in public - Make it stand out Figure 2. Doorway or window? Which itinerary would you follow? Image source: Judy Chen. Ottawa, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1627613448068-IMWTY4YRX19S4YBMZ7SU/Living+room_fig3.jpg Blog - Promenading living room in public - Make it stand out Figure 3. Promenading to, and later through, the living room. I stumbled across this living room as I was promenading through the City Hall while taking a short cut. Image source: Judy Chen. Ottawa, 2021. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/29/bourdieu-and-wings-of-desire-of-field-material-culture-and-habitus monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/28/benign-modernism monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/27/the-zima-blue-in-the-city monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1627406281080-7VKQPL7A8EPIYTR48BVQ/zima+blue+blog_fig4.jpg Blog - The Zima Blue in the city - Make it stand out Figure 1. Archambault Musique. Image source: Judy Chen. Montréal, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1627406298331-WHANGBDJDU4J8T8QKQWM/zima+blue+blog_fig5.jpg Blog - The Zima Blue in the city - Make it stand out Figure 2. Miss Villeray Café. Image source: Judy Chen. 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Image source: Author. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/20/tactical-urbanism-responding-to-the-covid-19-pandemic monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/19/utilizing-feng-shui-principle-in-urban-planning-for-harmonious-spaces monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/18/dreamy-resilient-coffee-culture monthly 0.5 2021-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1626650943046-APWOACFS05S9M7SISRTK/dreamy_roasting+gif.GIF Blog - Dreamy: resilient coffee culture - Make it stand out Figure 1. Coffee roasting at the CRS factory. Aiming to help independent cafés and other smaller-scale coffee roasters, the CRS provided the space and equipment needed for roasting coffee. Image source: Judy Chen. Montreal, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1626651021256-D16WTXYL3IJ2PGPW11YV/dreamy_coffee+selection.JPG Blog - Dreamy: resilient coffee culture - Make it stand out Figure 2. The selection of coffees. Andy is committed to having anywhere from 14 to 18 different roasters available on their shelves at one time. Image source: Judy Chen. Montreal, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1626651072441-GKDV29QSMSLPCYA7PTS5/dreamy_cafe+and+bakery.JPG Blog - Dreamy: resilient coffee culture - Make it stand out Figure 3. Dreamy. Being hit by Covid, Andy continues making coffee here while Missy Hansen Murphy takes over the baking station. Image source: Judy Chen. Montreal, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1626651279376-00YDX6BWLTFC3HK2TB6X/dreamy_outdoor+terrace.jpg Blog - Dreamy: resilient coffee culture - Make it stand out Figure 4. The outdoor terrace. With help from the city government, Dreamy now has an eye-catching and fun terrace with tables surrounding the tree trunks. Image source: Judy Chen. Montreal, 2021. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/16/local-project-challenge-featuring-local-development-solutions-and-ideas-for-action-to-accelerate-the-sdgs monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/14/art-as-the-decomposer-conflating-natural-life-cycles-to-the-life-cycles-of-cities monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/12/what-do-you-see-in-yellow monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1626140904698-H27RUG1D3OICZOSCVIZS/yellow+table+1_pic3.JPG Blog - What do you see in Yellow? - Make it stand out Figure 1. The Prenez Place! Installation in Montreal. Image source: Judy Chen. Montreal, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1626140938448-XWR6BHZ6WWHAJVTP7BDR/yellow+table+2_pic4.JPG Blog - What do you see in Yellow? - Make it stand out Figure 2. The urban table is back this year, starting in July 2021. The extended urban table runs through the Hydro-Québec Park, down Clark Street to Sainte-Catherine Street. Image source: Judy Chen. Montreal, 2021. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/12/200-meters-film-geo-political-urban-fragmentation monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/7/adaptative-public-spaces-building-safe-places-for-people-during-the-covid-19-pandemic monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1625677094413-PD42JON6SCHNRKGN8RIA/Bruno_minipost_1.jpg Blog - Adaptative public spaces: building safe places for people during the COVID-19 pandemic - Make it stand out Closed streets in Manhattan, NYC. The initiative to open streets to pedestrians allowed communities to use public spaces - mainly in high-density neighborhoods - and was crucial to support small businesses during the COVID-19 shutdown. Author: Bruno Ragi (2020). https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/7/urban-tinkering-the-innovative-and-sustainable-approach-for-broken-spaces monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2021/7/6/temporary-autonomous-spaces-on-time-space-and-insurgencies monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1625585528428-EPROWFC4XI88RCZI4YSZ/Silvano+Short+Story_1.jpg Blog - Temporary autonomous spaces. On time, space and insurgencies. - Make it stand out Figure 1. La Rimaia remains in the neighborhood. Activists marching in Barcelona’s Raval neighborhood and preparing to occupy an apartment. Source: Silvano De la Llata. Barcelona, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1625585736267-X9RUVW8ZAGQTONFF0MYA/Silvano+Short+Story_2.jpg Blog - Temporary autonomous spaces. On time, space and insurgencies. - Make it stand out Figure 2. Map of the march. Source: Silvano De la Llata. Barcelona, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1625585978480-74RS1BKWLCP8IYLR5T2V/Silvano+Short+Story_3.jpg Blog - Temporary autonomous spaces. On time, space and insurgencies. - Make it stand out Figure 3. Occupied house in Barcelona. Occupied houses were often used as spaces of artistic and social experimentation. Source: Silvano De la Llata. Barcelona, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1625586042532-2T7NA66AB6799PRVGC76/Silvano+Short+Story_4.jpg Blog - Temporary autonomous spaces. On time, space and insurgencies. - Make it stand out Figure 4. Okupa activist. Source: Silvano De la Llata. 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Project Idea for Coffee Park in Montreal. This image shows an example of Gestalt Theory as an urban design tool. Here, the two structures are located on both sides of the rail tracks and are constitute fragments of square. Both structures also shoot light and intersect above the rail. The observer completes the image and that creates a cognitive connection even when there is none at the material level. Source: Author: Silvano De la Llata. 10 November 2018, Montreal, QC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1542663680009-XGEBPE81L4PITZA43G1F/Coffee+Park+Community+Center+-+Perspective.jpg Blog - Let the mind put it together: How Gestalt theory can help city planners reverse fragmentation. Project Idea for a public space in West Haven Community (across Coffee Park) in Montreal. Here, A public space is projected in an alleyway to link the bakery and the community center. The sculpture connects conceptually with its counterpart on the other side of the rail tracks. Source. Author: Silvano De la Llata. 10 November 2018, Montreal, QC. https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2018/11/19/healing-the-wounds-of-the-city-urban-fragmentation-and-reconnection-in-postindustrial-landscapes monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/new-blog/2017/6/7/from-planning-tocitymaking monthly 0.5 2024-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1496861912064-YP7WPTAL5HDU0J8VQVDO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Cities by Citizens: From Planning to Citymaking Open conversation and brainstorming session to discuss safe spaces and rethink service alleyways in Montreal. Montreal, 2017. 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Healing the wounds Reversing urban fragmentation through sustainable redesign and community planning (Sustainable reinterpretation of Decarie) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1496260668366-2OPIBHM24E5OR3FXBMAS/Picture3.jpg Projects - Parks as community platforms Redesign of two park sites in Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (Kent Park and NDG Park) https://www.citiesxcitizens.com/about daily 0.75 2017-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1493672810373-3G42O8D6T2OTX5KDEHRE/15M-1024x683.jpg About us - what we do Building on that experience and critical urban design methodologies, such as pattern languages, placemaking and community charrettes, he coordinates CitiesXCitizens, a project to experiment with the democratization of city-making. He developed the methods planning-in-situ (i.e. planning the space from the space and in real time) and open planning (i.e. the planning process is potentially open to anyone who wants to participate). We particularly focus facilitating community engagement as an urban design strategy to revitalize and reappropriate interstitial spaces (i.e. space underneath elevated highways, service alleyways, railyards, etc.) in Montreal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1494874573605-TL9KGDEZNP4DR6AZGPSM/file.jpg About us - Silvano De La Llatta He is an architect, an urbanist and an educator. He received his PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University (2014). His research has focused on public space and the study of alternative uses, such as street vending, graffiti, public assembly and protest, as design/planning agents. His dissertation explores alternative planning processes in the context of protest encampments in horizontal social movements. He did research and participated in the Indignados mobilizations in Barcelona, Occupy Wall Street and other social movements in 2011 and 2012. Building on this experience. He developed urban design methodologies, open planning and planning-in-situ, to redesign interstitial spaces in Montreal through collaborative community engagement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58f8fa8d579fb34d83145aa4/1494874552756-Y4CDUF49ZK42JJC54FPW/10922647_10152610921491398_3754866054573247773_n.jpg About us - Mira baba Mira baba is a landscape architect and MSc student in Geography, Urban and Environmental studies at Concordia University. She is interested in studying cultural landscapes, sense of place and community-based design. 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