Montreal is an Un-Car City
Something of a trend of anti-car-induced-sprawl postings at Martine and Ed’s blogs…
It seems one of the basic variables of Montreal, a declarative statement in our urban programming, is not-car. At our best, we are a city of villages, as I found in that recently reprinted “Pignon sur rue” series of booklets about various Montreal neighborhoods (available through Renaud-Bray). Not Levittown ant-farm housing developments, connector roads and strip malls. We’re genetically walkable, bikeable, public transitable (if only they’d fund the damn thing).
Anyone else? Send me your permalinks!
August 15, 2003 6:26 PM

