Grassroots, greystones, and glass towers : Montreal urban issues and architecture / [edited by Bryan Demchinsky].

Title & Author:

Grassroots, greystones, and glass towers : Montreal urban issues and architecture / [edited by Bryan Demchinsky].

Publication:

Description:

211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Dossier Québec series

Notes:
Includes index.
Montreal : at the new crossroads / Dane Lanken -- A skyline for all seasons / Norbert Schoenauer -- The MCM at city hall : long on promises, short on action / Lewis Harris -- The promise of a master plan / Isabel Corral -- The magic mountain : an urban landscape for the next millennium / Peter Jacobs -- Recycling the Expo Islands and Lachine Canal / Ron Williams -- The indoor city : from organic beginning to guided growth / David Brown -- Streets can be a city's living room / Derek Drummond -- The fine art of enhancing public places / Aline Gubbay -- Significant buildings of the 1980s / Ricardo L. Castro -- The decade of the designer tower / Derek Drummond -- Postmodernism comes to Montreal / Mark London.
Architectural heritage : more than preserving old buildings / Joshua Wolfe -- The three Rs : restoration, renovation and recycling / Susan Bronson -- The façade fad : saving face isn't always enough / Joshua Wolfe -- The four lives of Pointe St. Charles / Pieter Sijpkes -- Downtown housing : filling in the gaps / Ian Macburnie -- Housing that belongs on Montreal streets / Adrian Sheppard.
Includes several references to Phyllis Lambert and the CCA.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

ISBN:

1550650017
9781550650013

Subject:

Architecture Québec (Province) Montréal.
Urban renewal Québec (Province) Montréal.
City planning Québec (Province) Montréal.
Urbanisme Québec (Province) Montréal.
Rénovation urbaine Québec (Province) Montréal.
City planning
Architecture
Buildings
Urban renewal
Architecture Québec (Province) Montréal 20th century
Skyscrapers Québec (Province) Montréal.
Montréal (Québec) Buildings, structures, etc.
Québec Montréal
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Added entries:

Demchinsky, Bryan.
Lambert, Phyllis
Centre canadien d'architecture
Dossier Québec series.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room montreal 150740
Call No.: NA9130.Q42 M62 1989
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main montreal 150739
Call No.: NA9130.Q42 M62 1989
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

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