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Les rapports à la ville à travers les espaces de loisirs : Montréal, 1880-1940
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Les rapports à la ville à travers les espaces de loisirs : Montréal, 1880-1940
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The author examines the influences that the milieu can have on different social classes and the diverse ways these classes experience the industrial city. Specifically, she examines how Montreal's elite reformers viewed recreational public spaces, which first appear around 1880, as symbols of the industrial city, and how the working class learned to accommodate the urban and industrial milieu. Studying the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association, one of the city's premier urban reform groups, the author concludes that reformative elites, throughout the 1880 to 1940 period, perceived the urban and industrial milieu as a sick body. At first, they seek to cure it by creating urban spaces similar to those in rural areas. After the First World War, they expect these spaces to be more like rooms for leisure activities. At first responsive, the municipal authorities attempt to compensate for the failings of the industrial city by creating recreational public spaces corresponding to the rural ideal. Then, during the First World War years, they adopt a more conciliatory attitude with regards to the city and manage the created spaces more like sites integrated into the urban fabric and planned for popular recreational activities.
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Master's Thesis
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Université de Montréal
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Montréal
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2009
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fr
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Shaffer, Valérie. “Les rapports à la ville à travers les espaces de loisirs : Montréal, 1880-1940.” Master’s Thesis, Université de Montréal, 2009. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/QMU/TC-QMU-7700.pdf.
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