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Ce livre abondamment illustré s’adresse à un lectorat passionné par l’environnement bâti qui désire en connaître davantage sur l’organisation physique et spatiale de nos villages, de nos villes et de nos agglomérations. Il intéressera particulièrement les intervenants, les professionnels et les étudiants dans les domaines de l’architecture, de l’architecture de paysage, de l’urbanisme, de la géographie urbaine, du patrimoine, du design urbain et de l’environnement.
How did a small French missionary colony become a major pivot of the North American economy and the leading industrial and financial metropolis of Canada in the nineteenth century, dominated by a Victorian bourgeoisie, only to see its role retrenched, by the later twentieth century, to one of a - contested- metropolis of the French-speaking province of Québec? How does the city today reconcile the many facets of its identity: as French window on North America, but also as a bilingual, and increasingly multicultural, metropolis? How has a city seemingly allergic to urban planning managed to sustain, even revitalize, an animated and liveable urban core? How can its economy exhibit an excellen...
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Surrounded by water and located at the heart of a fertile plain, the Island of Montreal has been a crossroads for Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and today's citizens, and an inland port city for the movement of people and goods into and out of North America. Commemorating the city's 375th anniversary, Montreal: The History of a North American City is the definitive, two-volume account of this fascinating metropolis and its storied hinterland. This comprehensive collection of essays, filled with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, draws on human geography and environmental history to show that while certain distinctive features remain unchanged – Mount Royal, the Lachi...
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