Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal

In the last section of the book, the editors focus on the urban house, Montreal's principal building type in the eighteenth-century, examining it in its material and social environments: morphology of town and fortifications, distribution of institutional buildings, and formative legal traditions — metropolitan French above all, but later also British and American. The demolition of Montreal's fortification walls (1801-1817) that had defined the town blurred town and suburb and augured a new urban form.

Montreal

Canadian Centre for Architecture/Centre canadien d'architecture

1992

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