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Thirty Years of Urbanism in Quebec City a City Hit by a Traumatism That Ain’T the One We Think It Is Marc Boutin Document généré le 26 sept. 2021 06:36 Inter Art actuel Thirty Years of Urbanism in Quebec City A City Hit By a Traumatism That Ain’t the One We Think It Is Marc Boutin Ville de Québec 1978-2008 Quebec City 1978-2008 Numéro 100, automne 2008 URI : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/60202ac Aller au sommaire du numéro Éditeur(s) Les Éditions Intervention ISSN 0825-8708 (imprimé) 1923-2764 (numérique) Découvrir la revue Citer cet article Boutin, M. (2008). Thirty Years of Urbanism in Quebec City: A City Hit By a Traumatism That Ain’t the One We Think It Is. Inter, (100), 68–71. Tous droits réservés © Les Éditions Intervention, 2008 Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d’auteur. L’utilisation des services d’Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d’utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l’Université de Montréal, l’Université Laval et l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. https://www.erudit.org/fr/ (20oo) or Art-Action, born of the THIRTY YEARS OF opposition to this movement, they an exuberant vertical modernity, writings of Richard Martel (2005). have lost a great deal. All proportions juxtaposed to a rigorous horizontal We also have to mention the many URBANISM IN considered, Boston is the American residential areas, at once urban catalogues and quality publications city that most closely resembles and Victorian, among the most accompanying events such as QUEBEC CITY Quebec City. beautiful in the world (North End, Mirabile Visu, L'année photographique A CITY HIT BY A In 1950, these two cities had Beacon Hill, Back Bay). In fact, à Québec, Trois fois 3 passages, had almost 350 years of history. the public opinion uprising has Temporalité, Art d'attitudes, Bonheur TRAUMATISM THAT AIN'T From an "urbanist" point of view, tempered the renovation endeavors et simulacres, the publications THE ONE WE THINK IT IS their two downtown core are similar of the "planners", hence protecting of the editions J'ai VU, DVD's of in their compact quarters. These downtown's residential life. BY MARC BOUTIN* different editions of the Rencontre quarters have clear boundaries, they internationale d'art performance of are socially distinct and densely A Simple Concept... Quebec City's urban history was Le Lieu or the studio art Avatar, and populated. They cover most of the or Simplistic? marked by a major event which is the videos done by La Bande Vidéo, central territory, to the exception In Quebec City, the U.R. not the Conquest nor the Battlefields without mentioning the websites and of some great urban parks such as (politicians at the time had of Abraham. It is not to exaggerated the blogs of today's world. the Boston Common and the Plains associated the idea of progress to speak here of a cataclysm around They stand as the true memory of of Abraham. This is a distinctive to the extent that to be against it which stands the history of many art actuel in Quebec City, since 1978. mark of urbanity: each square meter meant that you were "retrograde") areas downtown. Indeed, it explains They are so rich of details. Others, available is occupied, and there has taken, from 1967 onwards, the the morphology and the structure of we can only hope, will be interested is basically no space for random forms of a street fight between the metropolitan region. Its impact to find out more, as soon as you will planning. We have to count on filling urbanists feeling entitled to power, on our daily life's organization is have dropped the last word of our the surrounding low waters to get and a certain civil society in a from far more important than all dialogue... more space. At the beginning of desperate plight. Statistics allow other local historical phenomenon the fifties, first in Boston and then [us] to understand the magnitude of Thanks for your complicity of the last 400 years. Nevertheless, in Quebec City, problems started to these fights, ending in 1978, when Guy our valorous tourist guides are not occur. Narrow streets are congested tired of these everlasting wars, the mentioning it and historians rarely th to the point that commerce is in City gave up on transforming Saint- Thursday March 13 discuss it in this respect. It is, without decline. The pressure for a radical Gabriel Street as a way to access Guy, a doubt, because the stir it has move exists. The U.R., along with the Place-Québec. Between these two I write. And the words help me to generated is yet to calm down. To urbanist's response to this pressure, dates, some 10 000 people had think. I have proposed this dialogue say the least, the public as well as is becoming a panacea for the been dislocated, fourteen public to you to destabilize my habits, to experts often mistakes it for its timely business world. It is the beginning schools were demolished or closed, destabilize myself, to open doors. corollary, the Quiet Revolution. This of the great malls at the periphery of more than 4000 rental apartments And we have succeeded, I think. event is called "Urban Renovation" the city - something most daunting were sacrificed. In terms of its You have written: the writing like (U.R.). "dusts on the City"... leaving you to for inhabited areas. demography, the agglomeration Like a natural catastrophe, the that? literally exploded. Indeed, the U.R. hit North America without any Lisanne The Urban Renewal average density has passed from warning. Each city had to cope with In Boston, between 1950 and 10000 people per Km- to less than it in its own terms. Younger cities P.S. Thanks for all of this. • 1960, urbanists made their first 1000, and that, despite the fact that like Winnipeg and Edmonton, in mistakes under the name of the the total population has passed from Canada, adapted rapidly. It was Urban Renewal. Scollay Square is 365,000 to 620,000 people. It is fair Lisanne Nadeau lives and works in Que­ for them a form of rapid growth bec City. Historian and art critic, she is the central location amongst the most to say that the dimensions of the considering their short past and Director of the Galerie des arts visuels of lively and welcoming. It is typical contrasting zone was multiplied by some infrastructures already in place. Laval University. Working for many years of the open minded and burlesque twenty. No city, with the exception at the center La chambre blanche, she In 1950, Boston and Toronto, cities quarters surrounding it. It was to of some third-world megapolis, has coordinated many events, confer­ viewed as the most dynamic today, Boston what was once the Place has suffered such an impact. From ences and publications dealing with resisted the temptation to get rid d'Youville in Quebec City: a popular the most densely populated city installation practices and in situ. She of their tramways. But Montreal publishes regularly in various specialized gathering place. All of it, including in Canada, Quebec City has now and Quebec City, wanting to be publications and was the coordinator its residential neighborhood, was become the most spread out modern, were eager to get rid of it. of the Summary of 20 years of thei%, in destroyed and replaced by the so- metropolitan region. Even today, we 2004, for the Ministère de la Culture et Today, Toronto is part of the avant- called Government Center, a huge are seeing a few striking contrasts. des Communications. Lisanne Nadeau garde with a vast rail network and The Faubourg Saint-Jean, for has been the independent curator for the agora in red brick, testimony to a its costs are easy to absorb. Quebec instance, keeps a density difficult to Manif d'art 4, in the spring of 2008. bureaucratic austerity as cold as can City is still hesitant to go ahead 2 be. It is also next to a monumental surpass, at 17,500 people/km while Guy Sioui Durand is a Huron-Wendat. He with a new network which would City Hall that would have made many suburbs are barely capable is also a sociologist (Ph. DJ, art critic and include structures that existed not a Hitler's architect Albert Speer very of reaching the national average of indépendant curator who has scrutin­ long time ago. It is important to be ized Quebec's art actuel'scene and given proud. Another example which countries like Belgium - which is 330 careful: to be of your own time. most of his time to the understanding of evokes Dufferin-Montomorency: a people/km-. If the average density, political art and contemporary native arts. suspended highway runs through before 1950, was to be viewed He is one of the founders of the review Boston: Our Close Urban the core of the city. It is indeed the today on the whole agglomeration, Inter, art actuel and the center for artists Relative Quebec City would virtually be as Le Lieu: a space dedicated to the art actuel same highway that was transformed The compact built environment populated as Paris with its 8 millions scene in Quebec City. Durand has written into a tunnel for an outrageous cost of North American cities, such as for many periodicals and publications. He (16 billions $US).
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