The discourse on Montreal’s multilevel city followed the megastructuralist line in echoing the optimism of large-scale thinking prevalent in the 1960s. This idealism allowed architects to dissolve distinctions between the geometrical and technical aspects of architecture and town planning. Yet a vexing question invariably arose: could the multilevel help generate a new kind of social life commensurate to it?

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Paolo Scrivano and Mary Lou Lobsinger Experimental Architecture Progressive Pedagogy: Scarborough College
Andrew Waldron Frobisher Bay Future: Megastructure in a Meta-land
Inderbir Singh Riar Montreal and the Multilevel City
Cynthia Hammond Beaver Lake Stories and the Paradoxical Syntagma of Modern Heritage
Terri Fuglem Carmen Corneil at Carleton
Randy Cohen, Anne Cormier, Howard Davies Atelier Big City at Twenty-One

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