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Montreal, City of Water

An Environmental History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvMichèle Dagenais

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Built within an exceptional watershed, Montreal is intertwined with the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks. Even as the city has pushed its suburbs deeper into the interior of the island and onto the mainland, the daily lives and leisure activities of its inhabitants remain closely bound to water.Montreal, City of Water focuses on water not only as a physical element of the landscape – both shaping and shaped by urban development – but also as a sociocultural component of the life of the city. In exploring the dynamics governing the relationship between Montrealers and their environment, this unique study considers the role of water in the production and transformation of urban space over two centuries. It traces the history of urbanization and shines a light on current concerns about water pollution, river rehabilitation, and renewed public access to the riverfront – and the power relations involved in addressing those concerns.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-11-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNature | History | Society
Antal sidor256
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774836227
OriginaltitelMontreal et l’eau
ÖversättarePeter Feldstein

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Michèle Dagenais is a professor of history at the Université de Montréal. She specializes in urban and environmental history and is the author of Faire et fuir la ville: espaces publics de loisirs et de culture à Montréal et Toronto aux XIXe et XXe siècles (2006) and Des pouvoirs et des hommes: l'administration municipale de Montréal, 1900–1950 (2000). She is also co-editor of Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City: New Historic Approaches (2003) and Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal (2011). Peter Feldstein is the translator of eight books, including Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography, for which he won a Governor General's Literary Award in 2014. He lives in Montreal.

Foreword: Water-Ville / Graeme WynnIntroduction1 Montreal: One City, One Island2 Sources of a New Definition of the City3 The St. Lawrence: "A Superb Instrument to be Developed and Moulded"4 From City to Island: The Extension of Water Systems and the Structuring of the Urban Fabric5 In Search of the Lost River, or, the Urbanization of the Rivière des Prairies6 The Weight of the Island: Connecting the City to the Continent7 One City, One Archipelago: A Utopia?Conclusion: In the Heart of the CityNotesBibliographyIndex

Montreal, City of Water is full of insights.- Annmarie Adams (Scientia Canadiensis) The past was never paradise. Michèle Dagenais's Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History takes on the myth that Montrealers once enjoyed an idyllic relationship with the city's streams and the St. Lawrence River; a relationship supposedly lost during the nineteenth century only to await recovery after the 1970s. Instead, Dagenais shows that there was never a break between people and the environment…- Dale Barbour, University of Toronto (Network in Canadian History and Environment)