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YUL/MTL: Moving Landscapes - Moving Landscapes (Paperback)
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YUL/MTL: Moving Landscapes - Moving Landscapes (Paperback)
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Urban highways are unique windows from which to grasp a city s
identity. They can however be responsible for the fragmentation of
cities and the degradation of their adjacent living environments.
As many urban highways are aging, concerns about their
redevelopment, upgrading or dismantling are emerging in many cities
of the World. By examining the meaning as well as the opportunities
offered by urban gateway corridors, the book attempts to offer a
unique perspective on issues related this emerging landscape and
transportation issue. More specifically, the book aims to describe
the innovative approach to landscape infrastructure planning that
was used for the YUL-MTL: Moving Landscapes initiative held in
Montreal. Over two years, this initiative combined a design
competition and a workshop with collaborative efforts between 20
public agencies to rethink a 17 km stretch of Montreal s
Autoroute20 gateway corridor. Linking the downtown area to
Montreal-Trudeau international airport, the corridor is mainly
composed of transport infrastructures and industrial wastelands in
dire need of revitalization along with residential areas.The book
presents the collaborative process behind the development of a
strategic vision for the area, exposes the winning entries of the
competition and describes the subsequent steps that resulted in an
"atlas of possibilities" for the future of the area. It provides a
broad overview of the main challenges facing any project leader who
wishes to gather a wide range of stakeholders towards a common
goal: building a shared consensus over the prospective development
of large-scale infrastructure projects. It also provides the reader
with a diversity of actions and solutions to improve the landscape
of transportation corridors and their integration within their
surrounding environment. Hence, as the book details the local
context of Montreal s infrastructural landscapes, it also offers
insights and ideas to improve urban highway integration for cities
worldwide. Throughout the book, the permanent bond between cities
and infrastructures is not only explored through the lens of
landscape preservation but also landscape enhancement and
development.This three-pronged approach offers a strategy based on
the exploration of gateway corridor landscapes for what they are
but also for what they could and should be. As the collaborative
process allowed for clarifying the local stakeholders standpoint,
the design exercises (ideas competition and workshop) were used as
tools to improve the outcomes on the latters. The contribution of
the designers particularly helped materializing the strategic
framework that resulted from the collaborative process through the
addition of design guidelines. Overall, the book shows how the
consideration of the landscape when it comes to development
projects offers not only a rich contextual knowledge from a
transversal and multidisciplinary perspective but also becomes a
vector for the coherent planning of infrastructures and their
integration within adjacent territories and within the city."
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