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Article: Citadins et banlieusards. Representations, pratiques et identites *.
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Urban Research
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Abstract
In Quebec, the tensions between the central city (or downtown) and the suburbs were recently made manifest--indeed, crystallised--in the debates surrounding the municipal amalgamations that took place in January 2002. Space has thus been transformed, as have its vision in the eyes of its residents and their use of it. Yet practice and representation not only reflect the structural transformations of space; they contribute to these very transformations. We will examine here the dynamic between centre and suburb in the Montreal metropolitan area, based on data collected in 1978 by researchers at INRS-Urbanisation, which we briefly compare with other more ...