The Promoters' City: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneuve, 1883-1918

Linteau, Paul-André; Chodos, Robert B.

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“…A possible reason for this rests in their disciplinary influences: as prominent urban historian Gilbert Stelter suggests, 'American urban history is often closely associated with social history and the related social sciences, while in Canada, as in Britain, the influence of the more physically oriented disciplinesespecially geography, architecture and planning -are more apparent ' (1982, p. 2). Stelter, and other leading Canadian urban historians such as Frederick H. Armstrong (1986), Alan Artibise (1977), Paul-André Linteau (1985) and John C. Weaver (1982), were clearly influenced by British urban historian H.J. Dyos, in the way that they explore connections between a society's culture and the form of its cities.…”

Section: Externalist-cognitive Studies: Urban Geography and Urban His...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conzen at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Gad attended lectures by the urban geographer Arthur Smailes while a student in London. The influence of Conzen's ideas is clear in their impressive set of papers on emergence and form of the high-rise office building and the morphogenesis of King Street in Toronto (Gad and Holdsworth, 1984, 1985, 1987a, b, 1988.…”

Section: Externalist-cognitive Studies: Urban Geography and Urban His...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The study of urban form in Canada

Gilliland

Gauthier

2005

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This paper examines contributions to the study of urban form in Canada by French and English researchers working in a variety of disciplines, especially architecture, planning, geography, and history. Instead of discussing contributions purely along traditional linguistic or disciplinary lines, the authors use a novel classification scheme to identify and categorize significant works according to their particular epistemological perspective, before describing noteworthy contributions of various academic disciplines by key authors and research themes. The most significant contributions to the study of urban form in Canada have come from two largely isolated camps: first, architects/planners, mostly from Québec, who examine form as a relatively independent system and work in the tradition of the so-called ‘Italian school’ of process typology; and secondly, predominantly anglophone urban and historical geographers who deal with built forms and urban morphogenesis as a product of external forces. Recent work suggests that the ‘two solitudes’ may be coming together.

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Section: Externalist-cognitive Studies: Urban Geography and Urban His...mentioning

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Section: Externalist-cognitive Studies: Urban Geography and Urban His...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The study of urban form in Canada

Gilliland

Gauthier

2005

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“…Another relentless Liberal supporter of these improvements was Honourable Raymond Préfontaine, mayor of Montréal (and thus, member of the Harbour Commission) from 1898 to 1902. In 1902, he left municipal politics to become Minister of Marine and Fisheries in Laurier's cabinet, but through port improvements, he remained true to his promise to his former constituents that he would promote urban development in the east end of Montréal (where he also happened to own considerable land for speculation) (Linteau 1985).…”

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Muddy shore to modern port: redimensioning the Montréal waterfront time‐space

Gilliland¹

2004

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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For Montréal in the nineteenth century, as for most port cities, the waterfront served as the primary interface between the city and the markets of the world. This paper examines how and why the primitive waterfront of Montréal as of 1830 was repeatedly adapted and transformed into a modern port district by 1914. Beyond a detailed examination of the set of physical changes on the waterfront, this paper draws theoretical insights from geographical interpretations of the rhythm of capital accumulation to explore the formative and adaptive processes underlying waterfront redevelopment. Global innovations in transport and cargo‐handling technology are recognised as the preconditions for the periodic redimensioning of the port of Montréal, and it is established that these changes were driven by the perennial demands of local investors to accelerate circulation and thus reduce the turnover time of capital. This paper offers a new perspective on waterfront development by conceptualising the entire port as a comprehensive circulatory system and then exploring the redevelopment of various components in relation to others. The findings indicate that massive increases in traffic—the number and size of ships—through the port were correlated with the redimensioning of all of the connected components of the circulatory system; that is, the major arteries such as the St Lawrence River ship channel, as well as the smaller capillaries like finger piers.

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Un Temps Nouveau : Au Cœur d’une histoire en transformation

Linteau

2020

Canadian Historical Review

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The Promoters' City: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneuve, 1883-1918

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The study of urban form in Canada

The study of urban form in Canada

Muddy shore to modern port: redimensioning the Montréal waterfront time‐space

Un Temps Nouveau : Au Cœur d’une histoire en transformation

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