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03644aam a2200493 i 4500 001 DA41FD80AE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230217010059 008 210429s2021 quc 001 0 eng 020 $a 1550655809 020 $a 9781550655803 035 $a (OCoLC)1248897384 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLC $d OCLCA $d OCLCO $d UAB $d OCLCF $d LGG $d OCLCO $d CNCCA $d UKMGB $d G8V $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-cn-qu 050 4 $a JS1761.3.A2 $b S26 2021 055 0 $a JS1761.3.A2 $b S26 2021 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Sanger, Daniel $q (Daniel K.), $e author. 245 10 $a Saving the city : $b the challenge of transforming a modern metropolis / $c Daniel Sanger. 264 1 $a Montreal, Quebec, Canada : $b Vehicule Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 379 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a "The rise to power of one of Canada's most progressive municipal movements in recent memory. When it was dreamed up in the early 2000s by a transportation bureaucrat with a quixotic dream of bringing tramways back to the streets of Montreal, few expected Projet Montreal to go anywhere. But a decade and a half later, the party was a grassroots powerhouse with an ambitious agenda that had taken power at city hall--after dumping its founder, barely surviving a divisive leadership campaign and earning the ire of motorists across Quebec. Projet Montreal aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir, Saving the City chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and where it's headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montreal's administration for almost a decade, Daniel Sanger's book draws on dozens of interviews with other actors in the party and on the municipal scene, past and present. A highly readable history of Montreal municipal politics over the past 30 years, Saving the City will also discuss issues of interest to city-dwellers across Canada. Are political parties at the municipal level a good thing? Is Montreal's borough system a model for other big cities? What are the best ways to control urban car use? What is the optimum width for a sidewalk? The best kind of street tree? And why free parking is a terrible idea."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 505 0 $a Preface -- Saving the city -- Epilogue. 610 20 $a Projet Montreal (Political party) 650 0 $a Political parties $z Montreal. $z Montreal. 650 0 $a City councils $z Montreal. $z Montreal. 650 0 $a City planning $x Environmental aspects $z Montreal. $z Montreal. 650 0 $a City planning $x Political aspects $z Montreal. $z Montreal. 651 0 $a Montreal (Quebec) $x Politics and government $y 21st century. 650 6 $a Conseils municipaux $z Montreal. $z Montreal. 650 7 $a City councils. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862129 650 7 $a City planning $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862209 650 7 $a City planning $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862241 650 7 $a Political parties. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069410 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Quebec $z Montreal. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210434 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Sanger, Daniel (Daniel K.) $t Saving the city. $d Montreal, Quebec : Vehicule Press, 2021 $z 9781550655889 $z 9781550655889 $w (OCoLC)1255187450 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230217010728.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA41FD80AE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search