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'Subways Are Not Outdated': Debating the Montreal Metro, 1940-60 (December 2015)

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Technology and society Subways 20th century, early Canada Montreal (Quebec, Canada)

This article discusses how a subway was represented in debates on its merits as public transit for Montreal, Canada, during the 1940s and 1950s. Opponents argued that subways were obsolete in the automobile age, but supporters saw subway construction as a key tool for stimulating urban development and maintaining the city's prestige in the context of rising competition from Canada's second city, Toronto. Subway supporters regarded the project as being complementary to expressway construction, not as an alternative. A new technology developed in France provided the symbolic power that brought the project to fruition, beginning in 1960.

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Authors & Contributors
Keelan, Jennifer E.
Durand, Caroline
Dagenais, Michèle
Lacombe, Mireille
Joseph Hanaway
John H. Burgess
Journals
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Social Studies of Science
Social History of Medicine
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Histoire Sociale/Social History
Publishers
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concordia University (Canada)
UBC Press
Presses de l'Université de Montréal
MIT Press
McGill University Libraries
Concepts
Technology and society
Medicine
Urban history
Urbanization
Subways
Water
People
Archambault, Urgel-Eugène
Penfield, Wilder Graves
Archibald, Edward W. (Edward William),
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Canada
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Lachine Canal
Québec (Canada)
London (England)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
Bank of Montreal
Engineering Institute of Canada
Natural History Society of Montreal
Connaught Laboratories (Canada)
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University
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