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- Title: Downtown Montreal and Toronto: Distinct Places with Much in Common.
- Author : Canadian Journal of Regional Science
- Release Date : January 22, 1999
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 268 KB
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Discourses over the last twenty years have emphasized the differences between Montreal and Toronto, including the differences in the pace of development in their downtown areas. In spite of different growth rates and absolute size, these two downtown areas have shared a trajectory of urban development which has been shaped by their membership in the Canadian economy, and more widely by their status as substantial cities with diverse economies within north-eastern North America. This paper pays attention to these downtowns as places with distinct character shaped within a broader framework of change. A more detailed description of the last two decades highlights some of their current differences. The following text focuses to a large extent on office development and those activities which are accommodated in office buildings. The reasons for this emphasis are the dominance of offices in the downtowns between the 1950s and 1990s and my personal research interests. This paper reports on work in progress. While other features of downtown are considered, they deserve far more empirical research and critical reflection. "Downtown", the object of this paper, is a flexible notion. Here, the focus is on central areas rather than narrowly defined central business districts. Municipal governments have some notion of a special district at the centre of the metropolis and I shall follow their delimitations. In Montreal, the central area is the Ville-Marie District (Montreal, Ville 1990), which succeeds an earlier delimitation and the name Centre-Ville. In Toronto, the central area bears the official name Central Area (Toronto, City 1993). Therefore, throughout this paper I use central area as a generic term, and Central Area as a politically defined territory in the case of Toronto.
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