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Article: Montreal, depictions of a mid-size metropolis.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Urban Research
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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The current period seems to be a good time for overviews of the Montreal urban area and for predictions about its future. Indeed, as Germain and Rose pointed out in their recent portrait of urban issues in Montreal (2000), the city and the entire urban area are clearly in a transition period. The mid- 1990s appear to have marked the end of several decades of difficulties and the beginning of a long-awaited revitalization.
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