Main entry:

Marsan, Jean Claude.

Title & Author:

Montreal in evolution : historical analysis of the development of Montreal's architecture and urban environment / Jean-Claude Marsan.

Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981.

Description:

xxviii, 456 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Montréal en évolution.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-450) and index.
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.

ISBN:

0773503390
9780773503397
0773507981 (pbk.)
9780773507982

Subject:

Architecture Québec (Province) Montréal History.
City planning Québec (Province) Montréal.
City planning Québec (Province) Montréal History.
Architecture Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Urbanisme Québec (Province) Histoire.
Urbanisme Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Architecture.
City planning.
Québec Montréal.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main montreal 66102
Call No.: ID:85-B9410
Copy: c. 2
Status: External loan

Location: Library study room montreal 66105
Call No.: NA747.M66 (ID:85-B9410)
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available