The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal

Frédéric Mercure-Jolette & translated by Oliver Waine — 2015-10-23T05:00:00Z

Urban-renewal policies justify their actions by decrying neighbourhoods earmarked for demolition. Frédéric Mercure-Jolette seeks to demonstrate this via the little-studied example of the massive operations affecting downtown Montreal in the 1960s. His article also highlights the inextricable links between urban renewal and the paradoxical institutionalization of professional urban planning.
The Projet de rénovation d'une zone d'habitat défectueux et de construction d'habitation à loyer

- Essays / housing, urban planning, housing projects, urban policy, urban renewal, Montreal, slum, profession, development, Canada, salubrity, public action

Cities transformed by hygienism: 100 years of local innovation

Sabine Barles & translated by Oliver Waine — 2015-03-27T05:55:00Z

Hygiene is a “battle”, and the “hygienist revolution” of the 19th and early 20th centuries transformed our urban societies. This battle, which has been charted by the historian Stéphane Frioux, spread from city to city, based on “applied science” that was taken up by a variety of public and private stakeholders, reflecting the inventiveness and competence of the local authorities of the time.
Hygiene and hygienism have long attracted the attention of historians – historians of urban issues,

- Reviews / France, innovation, environment, water, sanitation, waste, utilities, urban public service, hygienism, salubrity, urban technical networks, urban services, health

Metropolitics

The “Dozois Plan”: lessons learned from urban-renewal policies and the history of urban planning in Montreal

Cities transformed by hygienism: 100 years of local innovation