Saving the City

The Challenge of Transforming a Modern Metropolis

Daniel Sanger

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Vehicule Press
07 June 2022

Urban & municipal planning

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.

By: Daniel Sanger
Imprint: Vehicule Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781550655803
ISBN 10: 1550655809
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 07 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

An award-winning journalist and writer based in Montreal, Daniel Sanger took a two-year hiatus to work with Projet Montreal in 2010. It ended up lasting nine years. A founding editor of the Montreal Mirror in 1985, he moved onto the Montreal Gazette and The Canadian Press, including a stint as a correspondent at Quebec's National Assembly. In the mid 1990s he quit newspaper journalism to work in magazines. He was the Quebec correspondent for The Economist for more than a decade while contributing articles to many other magazines and newspapers.

Reviews for Saving the City: The Challenge of Transforming a Modern Metropolis

"""One of the most fascinating Canadian political books in an age...Saving the City combines the clear eye of a very good reporter with the insider access of a sympathetic partisan . Sanger's frankness, and that of his sources, is a tonic."" -Paul Wells, Maclean's"