L'intégration d'un discours de la conservation à la pratique urbanistique québécoise: réflexions sur la période 1960-2006
For a few decades now, urban planners have tried to include the conservation of built environment in their practices. In Quebec, the first introduction of this consideration takes place in 1980 by the adoption of the Act respecting land use planning and development. Unfortunately, this new consideration was never fully included in the practice, even if urban planning tried to considerer conservation of built environment as one of his main interest. Regarding the definition of built heritage by Gustavo Giovannoni, this study is concerned with the consideration of built heritage in an urban planning’s point of view. In the first part, we will go through an overview of the evolution of the term built heritage. Secondly, we will review three different moments in the constitution of a specific point of view of Quebec’s built heritage. Finally, we will dedicate the third part of our thesis to the birth of urban planning in the province of Quebec. The results of our study show that the modern urban planner’s point of view on built heritage is still characterized by a disinterest in the urban and architectural forms. The focus made by urban planners on the rational management of the twentieth century’s city caused a misunderstanding of its evolution process. What we will demonstrate is that a real urban planning’s point of view on built heritage must consider these processes as well as the inclusion of the old city within the new agglomeration.
Conservation Planning Urban planning Conservation Morphogenetic approach Urban fabric Built heritage