Urbanism guru with ideas for the city
Raphaël Fischler, who heads McGill’s urbanism school, has several ideas to improve life in Montreal including backing off on plans to embark on wider language laws because it’s not merely a Quebec village on a larger scale. His ideas are nicely and tersely put.
Tantastic Ted 15:24 on 2012/09/18 Permalink
Fischler is a smart guy, I know a bit about him and he’s on the ball.
No\Deli 15:55 on 2012/09/18 Permalink
That’s a mayoral platform if I’ve ever seen one. Fischler 2013.
Matt 18:43 on 2012/09/18 Permalink
Yes. Yes.
pierre s. 22:07 on 2012/09/18 Permalink
fischler’s swiss and definitely not running for mayor. a really interesting and intelligent guy, he’s very up front about his critiques of the city, and he doesn’t mind sharing them. he helped guide the montreal master plan and he’s definitely more careful – not to say conservative – than bergeron, who fischler actually filed some sort of complaint about to ensure that he was a registered urbanism (he told us about it in class to underline the importance of the integrity of the professional designation!).
Tantastic Ted 08:38 on 2012/09/19 Permalink
Ohmygod! A Swiss running Montreal! Imagine how well everything would suddenly work!