Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montreal [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Lambert, Phyllis; Stewart, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0262620863 ISBN 13: 9780262620864

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 1992

Riassunto

This study focuses on the interrelationships of three key elements of Montréal's urban form: its fortifications; the ownership, distribution, and use of property within its walls; and the nature of its buildings.

Based on a fifteen-year study of manuscript sources from Europe and North America, Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal focuses on the interrelationships of three key elements of Montréal's urban form: its fortifications; the ownership, distribution, and use of property within its walls; and the nature of its buildings. The first section of the book, Fortifications, traces Montréal's development as one of the most important military and commercial centers of the French colonial network arching from Louisbourg to the Great Lakes and down the Lake Champlain and Ohio corridors. It also discusses the related development of the town's fortifications. Town, the second section, examines how Montréal's diversifying economic activities - many connected with the building, maintenance, and supply of inland military posts -influenced land use and building within the walls. The last section, Buildings, focuses on the urban house, Montréal'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 the walls (1801-1817) that had defined the town blurred town and suburb and augured a new urban form.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Phyllis Lambert is founder and director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0262620863
• ISBN 13: 9780262620864
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 96
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile