Formes urbaines

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The material and social forms that comprise urban life contribute to the elaboration and transmission of cultural expression. In Montreal, a city constantly transformed by population movements, urban renewal and political vagaries, the “mediality” of material and social forms persistently stimulates—and obscures—the discourse and its underlying concerns. These urban forms, be they emerging or firmly established, are examined here from the combined perspectives of art history, semiology, communication studies, and sociology, research paradigms commonly explored in isolation. Focussing on fourteen case studies, Formes urbaines : circulation, stockage et transmission de l’expression culturelle à Montréal offers a new, medial interpretation of a culture that is truly montréalaise.