{"product_id":"montreal-city-of-water-9780774836227","title":"Montreal City of Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMontreal, City of Water\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the development of the city over two centuries, tracing the relationship between the city’s inhabitants and the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMontreal, City of Water \u003c\/i\u003eis full of insights.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Annmarie Adams * Scientia Canadiensis *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe past was never paradise. Michèle Dagenais’s \u003cem\u003eMontreal, City of Water: An Environmental History\u003c\/em\u003e takes on the myth that Montrealers once enjoyed an idyllic relationship with the city’s streams and the St. Lawrence River; a relationship supposedly lost during the nineteenth century only to await recovery after the 1970s. Instead, Dagenais shows that there was never a break between people and the environment…\u003c\/p\u003e -- Dale Barbour, University of Toronto * Network in Canadian History and Environment *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Water-Ville \/ \u003cem\u003eGraeme Wynn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Montreal: One City, One Island\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Sources of a New Definition of the City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The St. Lawrence: “A Superb Instrument to be Developed and Moulded”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 From City to Island: The Extension of Water Systems and the Structuring of the Urban Fabric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 In Search of the Lost River, or, the Urbanization of the Rivière des Prairies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The Weight of the Island: Connecting the City to the Continent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 One City, One Archipelago: A Utopia?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: In the Heart of the City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404937535831,"sku":"9780774836227","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774836227.jpg?v=1730488119","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/montreal-city-of-water-9780774836227","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}