Author: Stephane Castonguay
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822977710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve as an international port while also providing rail access to the Canadian interior. The historic capital of the Province of Canada, once Canada's foremost metropolis, Montreal has a multifaceted cultural heritage drawn from European and North American influences. Thanks to its rich past, the city offers an ideal setting for the study of an evolving urban environment. Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and it region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature. The fourteen chapters cover a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu epidemic and its ensuing human environmental modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period. Situations that politicize the environment are discussed as well, including the economic and class dynamics of flood relief, highways built to facilitate recreational access for the middle class, power-generating facilities that invade pristine rural areas, and the elitist environmental hegemony of fox hunting. Additional chapters examine human attempts to control the urban environment through street planning, waterway construction, water supply, and sewerage.
Brief on the Metropolitan Problems of Greater Montreal
Author: Saint-Laurent (Île-de-Montréal, Québec)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montréal Metropolitan Area (Québec)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montréal Metropolitan Area (Québec)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Future of Greater Montreal
Author: Don Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781895446098
Category : Metropolitan government
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781895446098
Category : Metropolitan government
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Governing the Island of Montreal
Author: Andrew Sancton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520049062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520049062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Montréal, a City-region
Author: Groupe de travail sur Montréal et sa région (Québec)
Publisher: [Montréal] : Task Force on Greater Montréal
ISBN: 9782550284529
Category : Civic improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher: [Montréal] : Task Force on Greater Montréal
ISBN: 9782550284529
Category : Civic improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
A Symposium of Opinion on the Borough System of Government for Greater Montreal
Author: Municipal Service Bureau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boroughs
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boroughs
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Metropolitan Natures
Author: Stephane Castonguay
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822977710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve as an international port while also providing rail access to the Canadian interior. The historic capital of the Province of Canada, once Canada's foremost metropolis, Montreal has a multifaceted cultural heritage drawn from European and North American influences. Thanks to its rich past, the city offers an ideal setting for the study of an evolving urban environment. Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and it region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature. The fourteen chapters cover a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu epidemic and its ensuing human environmental modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period. Situations that politicize the environment are discussed as well, including the economic and class dynamics of flood relief, highways built to facilitate recreational access for the middle class, power-generating facilities that invade pristine rural areas, and the elitist environmental hegemony of fox hunting. Additional chapters examine human attempts to control the urban environment through street planning, waterway construction, water supply, and sewerage.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822977710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for services and technology. A city and an island located at the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, it is uniquely situated to serve as an international port while also providing rail access to the Canadian interior. The historic capital of the Province of Canada, once Canada's foremost metropolis, Montreal has a multifaceted cultural heritage drawn from European and North American influences. Thanks to its rich past, the city offers an ideal setting for the study of an evolving urban environment. Metropolitan Natures presents original histories of the diverse environments that constitute Montreal and it region. It explores the agricultural and industrial transformation of the metropolitan area, the interaction of city and hinterland, and the interplay of humans and nature. The fourteen chapters cover a wide range of issues, from landscape representations during the colonial era to urban encroachments on the Kahnawake Mohawk reservation on the south shore of the island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu epidemic and its ensuing human environmental modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period. Situations that politicize the environment are discussed as well, including the economic and class dynamics of flood relief, highways built to facilitate recreational access for the middle class, power-generating facilities that invade pristine rural areas, and the elitist environmental hegemony of fox hunting. Additional chapters examine human attempts to control the urban environment through street planning, waterway construction, water supply, and sewerage.
A Metropolitan Organism for Greater Montreal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Metropolitan Communities
Author: Government Affairs Foundation (New York)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT FOR GREATER MONTREAL - THE SUBURBAN VIEWPOINT OF THE TOWN OF BEACONSFIELD.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Spatial Dimensions of Urban Government
Author: I. M. Barlow
Publisher: Research Studies Press Limited
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Research Studies Press Limited
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description