[Rico Rommheim]

Not nuts, no. Just take a walk down de Maisonneuve sometime between St-Dominique and Sanguinet some time. The geniuses who designed the project made sure that most of the buildings face away from de Maisonneuve, shitty little patches of brown grass and 2-3 storey brown brick apartments that look more like POW camps than housing. No amount of murals on blank walls can fix this debacle.


Its not the concentration of welfare collecting people that bothers me, but the planning of this mess. It is such an anti-urban experience to walk through this site, as if the urban planners who were in charge back in the 50's hated Montreal's streets, and gave the future inhabitants the lowest possible standards of architecture and quality. And all this right in between le quartier des spectacles and quartier latin.


But to each his own, I reckon.