Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History

Author:   Michèle Dagenais ,  Peter Feldstein
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
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9780774836234


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 June 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History


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Built within an exceptional watershed, Montreal is intertwined with the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks. Even as the city has pushed its suburbs deeper into the interior of the island and onto the mainland, the daily lives and leisure activities of its inhabitants remain closely bound to water. Montreal, City of Water focuses on water not only as a physical element of the landscape – both shaping and shaped by urban development – but also as a sociocultural component of the life of the city. In exploring the dynamics governing the relationship between Montrealers and their environment, this unique study considers the role of water in the production and transformation of urban space over two centuries. It traces the history of urbanization and shines a light on current concerns about water pollution, river rehabilitation, and renewed public access to the riverfront – and the power relations involved in addressing those concerns.

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Author:   Michèle Dagenais ,  Peter Feldstein
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780774836234


ISBN 10:   0774836237
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Montreal, City of Water is full of insights. -- Annmarie Adams * Scientia Canadiensis * The past was never paradise. Michèle Dagenais’s Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History takes on the myth that Montrealers once enjoyed an idyllic relationship with the city’s streams and the St. Lawrence River; a relationship supposedly lost during the nineteenth century only to await recovery after the 1970s. Instead, Dagenais shows that there was never a break between people and the environment… -- Dale Barbour, University of Toronto * Network in Canadian History and Environment *


The past was never paradise. Michele Dagenais's Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History takes on the myth that Montrealers once enjoyed an idyllic relationship with the city's streams and the St. Lawrence River; a relationship supposedly lost during the nineteenth century only to await recovery after the 1970s. Instead, Dagenais shows that there was never a break between people and the environment... -- Dale Barbour, University of Toronto * Network in Canadian History and Environment * Montreal, City of Water is full of insights. -- Annmarie Adams * Scientia Canadiensis *


The past was never paradise. Michele Dagenais's Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History takes on the myth that Montrealers once enjoyed an idyllic relationship with the city's streams and the St. Lawrence River; a relationship supposedly lost during the nineteenth century only to await recovery after the 1970s. Instead, Dagenais shows that there was never a break between people and the environment... -- Dale Barbour, University of Toronto * Network in Canadian History and Environment *


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Michèle Dagenais is a professor of history at the Université de Montréal. She specializes in urban and environmental history and is the author of Faire et fuir la ville: espaces publics de loisirs et de culture à Montréal et Toronto aux XIXe et XXe siècles (2006) and Des pouvoirs et des hommes: l'administration municipale de Montréal, 1900–1950 (2000). She is also co-editor of Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City: New Historic Approaches (2003) and Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal (2011). Peter Feldstein is the translator of eight books, including Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography, for which he won a Governor General's Literary Award in 2014. He lives in Montreal.

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