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Young queers are changing what it means to live in an LBGTQ neighbourhood, writes Concordia researcher
Julie Podmore shows how a generational shift led to new spaces that welcome sexual and gender diversity, like Montreal’s Mile End
Montreal’s Gay Village remains the area where, in less pandemic-y times, the city’s LGBT community embraces its history of civil rights struggles, thriving nightlife and usually peaceful co-existence between commerce and urban grit.
However, over the last several decades, there has been a generational shift away from the Village. This change has drawn growing numbers of people who identify as queer as opposed to gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans to other parts of the city, largely based on the rejection of the commercial and tourist traditions of the Ste-Catherine Street strip. Until a few years ago, Montreal’s Mile End was the locus of this movement.
How Parking Reform Changed Development in Buffalo
New research quantifies the effect of parking reforms implemented by the city of Buffalo in 2017. April 8, 2021, 12pm PDT | James Brasuell | One of the most promising trends in urban planning is the push from a growing number of U.S. cities to reduce minimum parking requirements for new developments, writes Eric Jaffe.
Proof of the promise of parking reform can now be found in Buffalo. Because large-scale efforts to reduce parking minimums are still relatively few, Buffalo s status as an early adopted of parking reforms make it one of the few locations that has been undertaking the experiment long enough to provide data for evaluation.