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Montreal The Quest for a Metropolis

Montreal The Quest for a Metropolis
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  • ISBN-13: 9780471949077
  • ISBN: 0471949078
  • Publication Date: 2000
  • Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

AUTHOR

Germain, Annick, Rose, Damaris

SUMMARY

How did a small French missionary colony become a major pivot of the North American economy and the leading industrial and financial metropolis of Canada in the nineteenth century, dominated by a Victorian bourgeoisie, only to see its role retrenched, by the later twentieth century, to one of a - contested- metropolis of the French-speaking province of Qu?bec? How does the city today reconcile the many facets of its identity: as French window on North America, but also as a bilingual, and increasingly multicultural, metropolis? How has a city seemingly allergic to urban planning managed to sustain, even revitalize, an animated and liveable urban core? How can its economy exhibit an excellent performance in terms of conversion to high technology and knowledge-based industries, yet suffer from persistent high unemployment? How can a city with such an extreme climate and long cold winter, and that remains significantly divided between two cultural and linguistic majorities, be so frequently ranked one of the worlda?s most liveable cities?The list of paradoxes characterizing Montr?al is a long one. The portrait that Annick Germain and Damaris Rose strive to paint of the intriguing city, caught in the ma?[read more]

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