The Montreal plan has two unusual characteristics: there are buildings of different sizes and shapes, and car-free public space forms the bones of the neighbourhood
home from a transit station or cycle up to their front doors. Many blocks will be entirely free of the chaos of vehicles. It’s a utopian form of urbanism that we can’t seem to build in Canada .
The site is not exactly a blank slate – residents of the adjacent Pointe St.-Charles district have successfully called for public space and generous social housing in the development – but it still offers room to manoeuvre. It is mostly idle industrial land along the Peel Basin, steps from the Farine Five Roses mill.
Indeed, the plan’s 300,000 square metres of floor space are broken up into two high-rise buildings of 20 and 26 storeys, a cluster of 12- to 16-storey buildings, and roughly a dozen smaller ones, as low as four storeys tall.
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