Saving the city : the challenge of transforming a modern metropolis / Daniel Sanger.

Main entry:

Sanger, Daniel (Daniel K.), author.

Title & Author:

Saving the city : the challenge of transforming a modern metropolis / Daniel Sanger.

Publication:

Montréal, Québec, Canada : Véhicule Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

379 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Preface -- Saving the city -- Epilogue.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"The rise to power of one of Canada's most progressive municipal movements in recent memory. When it was dreamed up in the early 2000s by a transportation bureaucrat with a quixotic dream of bringing tramways back to the streets of Montreal, few expected Projet Montréal to go anywhere. But a decade and a half later, the party was a grassroots powerhouse with an ambitious agenda that had taken power at city hall--after dumping its founder, barely surviving a divisive leadership campaign and earning the ire of motorists across Quebec. Projet Montréal aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir, Saving the City chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and where it's headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montréal's administration for almost a decade, Daniel Sanger's book draws on dozens of interviews with other actors in the party and on the municipal scene, past and present. A highly readable history of Montreal municipal politics over the past 30 years, Saving the City will also discuss issues of interest to city-dwellers across Canada. Are political parties at the municipal level a good thing? Is Montreal's borough system a model for other big cities? What are the best ways to control urban car use? What is the optimum width for a sidewalk? The best kind of street tree? And why free parking is a terrible idea."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781550655803 paperback
1550655809 paperback
(html)
9781550655889

Subject:

Projet Montréal (Political party)
Projet Montréal (Parti politique)
Political parties Québec (Province) Montréal.
City councils Québec (Province) Montréal.
City planning Environmental aspects Québec (Province) Montréal.
City planning Political aspects Québec (Province) Montréal.
Partis politiques Québec (Province) Montréal.
Conseils municipaux Québec (Province) Montréal.
Urbanisme Aspect de l'environnement Québec (Province) Montréal.
Urbanisme Aspect politique Québec (Province) Montréal.
City councils
City planning Environmental aspects
City planning Political aspects
Political parties
Politics and government
Montréal (Québec) Politics and government 21st century.
Montréal (Québec) Politique et gouvernement 21e siècle.
Québec Montréal

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315163
Call No.: 315163
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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