Arvida, cité industrielle : une épopée urbaine en Amérique

In 1925 the Aluminum Company of America built a town some 250 kilometers north of Quebec City, around its new aluminum smelting plant. The town was called Arvida, after its American founder, Arthur Vining Davis (1867-1962), and it was designed on the Garden City philosophy, which promoted planned, self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts, containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture. Now integrated with the city of Jonquière, the author argues that Arvida is the mirror or the poster of an urban planning philosophy of twentieth century America.

Sillery, QC

Septentrion

1998

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