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“Most planning of the past fifteen years has been based upon three destructive fallacies: the cataclysmic insists upon tearing everything down in order to design from an absolutely clean slate; the automotive would plan for the free passage of the automobile at the expense of all other values; the suburban dislikes the city anyway and would just as soon destroy its density and strew it across the countryside.” Vince Scully
Loving this thread. Leave even facades aside, the overall urban arrangement seems perfect. I see why they like to compare it to the older Euro urban forms, wondering why urban planners wouldn't go back to this. Well, everything they've invented since then is just boring crap compared to this. Is it so hard to contiguously align buildings along streets? Cause that's just what they need to do, huh?
Enjoyed this tour along Old Montreal. Thanks for sharing.
I like those streets and its road surface in the narrow ones. There´re very nice historic buildings in that area of Montreal. Great job! Love Montreal.
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"You need both a public and a private position." --Hillary Clinton, speaking behind closed doors to the National Multi-Family Housing Council, 2013
Great set. Damn you, Montreal, for your wonderful old districts.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
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