Montreal in the Twentieth Century : Trajectories of a City under Strains
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Montreal in the Twentieth Century : Trajectories of a City under Strains
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Montreal began the twentieth century as Canada’s primary city, economically ruled by an Anglophone Protestant elite and politically by a Francophone Catholic elite. By the 1960s, Toronto had become the financial and industrial capital of Canada and, with the advent of Quebec's Quiet Revolution and the push for Francophone linguistic rights, Montreal declined into a regional cultural capital. The author argues that that movement nevertheless helped Montreal protect some key industries while immigrants from Asia, Latin America, and the Islamic world created new ethnic diversity. She claims that urban processes mixing separations, aggregations, and integrations allowed Montreal to grow through urban sprawl and keep solid prosperity, fair distributions, and open opportunities, limiting marginalities.
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New World Cities: Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas
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Chapel Hill, NC
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The University of North Carolina Press
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2019
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169-209
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en
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978-1-4696-4877-4
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Dagenais, Michèle. “Montreal in the Twentieth Century : Trajectories of a City under Strains.” In New World Cities: Challenges of Urbanization and Globalization in the Americas, edited by John Tutino and Martin V. Melsoi, 169–209. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
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