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Montreal in evolution : historical analysis of the development of Montreal's architecture and urban environment /

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: engfre Publication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1981.Description: xxviii, 456 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0773503390
  • 0773507981 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720/.9714/281 19
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Where the Old World and the New World Meet. 1: Key to the West. At the Crossroads -- An Exceptional Location -- First Settlement -- 2: Island Colony. Dispute over an Empire -- Highway of the Colony -- Villages on the Island -- "Cotes" of the Island -- Influence of Rural Structures -- Part II: The Frontier Town, 1642-1840. 3: Society During the Old Regime. Popular Traditions -- Academic Tradition -- Enduring Attitudes -- 4: Frontier Town. Laying out the First Streets -- A Century of Development -- Medievalism and Classicism -- 5: Architecture and Environment in the Frontier Town. Architectural Heritage of the Old Regime -- Public Architecture -- Environment of the Frontier Town -- 6: Years of Transition. A City of Merchants -- Plan of the Commissioners -- Image of the City -- New Notre-Dame Church -- Part III: Victorian Montreal, 1840-World War I. 7: New Forces. Transportation Revolution -- Two Solitudes -- Impact of Industry -- Victorian Architecture -- 8: Somewhere Between Good and Mediocre: Public and Religious Architecture. Neo-Classical and Neo-Gothic Architecture -- Neo-Baroque Architecture -- Second Empire and Beaux-Arts Styles -- Influence of Shaw and Richardson -- 9: Hopes and Disappointments: Commercial Architecture. "Stone Skeletons" -- Italian Forms -- First Skyscrapers -- Grain Elevators and Victoria Bridge -- 10: From Extravagance to Indigence: Domestic Architecture. Residences of the Rich -- Towards Standardized Housing -- Standardized Housing: Pros and Cons -- 11: The Victorian Legacy. Discovering a Legacy -- Environment as a Legacy -- Street as a Show -- Square as a Legacy -- Park as a Legacy -- Part IV: Montreal in the Twentieth Century. 12: The Metropolis. A New Reality -- A New Pattern of Industrial Settlement -- A New Residential Pattern -- Attempts at Planning -- Liberation: A Challenge -- 13: The New Core of the City. Fifty Years of Gestation -- Downtown Giants -- Criticisms and Future Guidelines -- Subway -- Man and His World -- Conclusion -- Epilogue. Recent Projects of the Catch-up Period -- Future of Montreal.
Summary: From the front of the book - One cannot understand Montreal and its destiny without reference to its geographic situation on the North American Continent. Nor can its growth be understood without reference to its site, and island adorned with a hill and steep terraces, natural characteristics which helped determine the urban landscape. In this particular setting other forced responsible for their physical development of Montreal have intervened : techno-
List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Reference Reference Carleton University, AVRC Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot Open-stacks NA9130* (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 16055001440

Includes index.

Signed "D.S. Richardson"

Translation of: Montréal en evolution, 1974.

Bibliography: p. [431]-450.

Introduction -- Part I: Where the Old World and the New World Meet. 1: Key to the West. At the Crossroads -- An Exceptional Location -- First Settlement -- 2: Island Colony. Dispute over an Empire -- Highway of the Colony -- Villages on the Island -- "Cotes" of the Island -- Influence of Rural Structures -- Part II: The Frontier Town, 1642-1840. 3: Society During the Old Regime. Popular Traditions -- Academic Tradition -- Enduring Attitudes -- 4: Frontier Town. Laying out the First Streets -- A Century of Development -- Medievalism and Classicism -- 5: Architecture and Environment in the Frontier Town. Architectural Heritage of the Old Regime -- Public Architecture -- Environment of the Frontier Town -- 6: Years of Transition. A City of Merchants -- Plan of the Commissioners -- Image of the City -- New Notre-Dame Church -- Part III: Victorian Montreal, 1840-World War I. 7: New Forces. Transportation Revolution -- Two Solitudes -- Impact of Industry -- Victorian Architecture -- 8: Somewhere Between Good and Mediocre: Public and Religious Architecture. Neo-Classical and Neo-Gothic Architecture -- Neo-Baroque Architecture -- Second Empire and Beaux-Arts Styles -- Influence of Shaw and Richardson -- 9: Hopes and Disappointments: Commercial Architecture. "Stone Skeletons" -- Italian Forms -- First Skyscrapers -- Grain Elevators and Victoria Bridge -- 10: From Extravagance to Indigence: Domestic Architecture. Residences of the Rich -- Towards Standardized Housing -- Standardized Housing: Pros and Cons -- 11: The Victorian Legacy. Discovering a Legacy -- Environment as a Legacy -- Street as a Show -- Square as a Legacy -- Park as a Legacy -- Part IV: Montreal in the Twentieth Century. 12: The Metropolis. A New Reality -- A New Pattern of Industrial Settlement -- A New Residential Pattern -- Attempts at Planning -- Liberation: A Challenge -- 13: The New Core of the City. Fifty Years of Gestation -- Downtown Giants -- Criticisms and Future Guidelines -- Subway -- Man and His World -- Conclusion -- Epilogue. Recent Projects of the Catch-up Period -- Future of Montreal.

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