Mercure-Jolette, Frédéric; Hatton-Proulx, Clarence et Van Neste, Sophie L. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3319-4879
(2022).
Mobilizing Suburban Stereotypes: The Case of Ville d’Anjou (1956-1973)
Journal of urban history
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DOI: 10.1177/00961442211069188.
Résumé
In this article, we examine how in the 1960s the political leadership in Anjou, a suburban community in the Greater Montreal region, cultivated the stereotypical ideal of a bourgeois residential suburb in contrast with its actual dynamics of development in the metropolitan region. Our analysis focuses on three dimensions of the suburban ideal: residential monofunctionalism, political autonomy, and an exclusive and apolitical community. For each of these dimensions, we show how Anjou’s political leadership grappled with a complex reality and adapted the suburban ideal to ensure that their community, dependent as it was on metropolitan infrastructure and a host to heavy industry, could still be considered an ideal suburb. Our contribution speaks to the material and political impacts of such representation in a more complex set of processes of suburban and metropolitan development.
| Type de document: | Article |
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| Mots-clés libres: | histoire de banlieue; développement urbain; politique; ville d'Anjou |
| Centre: | Centre Urbanisation Culture Société |
| Date de dépôt: | 14 juill. 2022 18:52 |
| Dernière modification: | 14 juill. 2022 18:52 |
| URI: | https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/12602 |
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