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Design Strategies From Industrial Regeneration Towards Community Health

Learning From the Montreal Ephemeral Ecosystem

Alice Covatta

Following the recession of manufacturing, shipping and bank sectors that started in the 1980s that emptied its inner core, Montreal has experienced a rapid urban transformation pushed by the knowledge economy, particularly in the fields of education, arts, video gaming and artificial intelligence. Since the 2010s Montreal has become an international example for European post-industrial cities for the ability to renovate itself, injecting new activities into crumbling urban sectors, stimulating urban growth and reinventing the city identity. If Montreal was the example of an industry-driven city in the past,...