MONTREAL CITY
Introduction
To walk in the street of Montreal city is a lovely experience, particularly the modern center. The new metropolis city recaptures the history of the Old Montreal, which genuinely reflects the riches experienced in the modern cosmopolitan city. Montreal metropolis city is one of the most densely populated cities in Quebec province. The current population of Montreal in 2019 is averagely 4,196,000, a 0.58% increase from 2018. According to the study and field survey, the metropolis city occupies almost three-fourths of the Montreal island. It covers area approximate of 431 square Kilometers. Historically, the Montreal city became colonized by the French missionaries’ settlers. After that, the city became a center for trading in the Quebec province.
Its geographical location in southern Canada, specifically on St. Lawrence, has demonstrated a key advantage for its growth in terms of transportation, financially, and manufacturing. After exploration and study, the result has shown that the city has become an immigrant’s destination for most Americans, thus considered to be one of the greatest and cosmopolitan cities of North America. Montreal city remains a place of joviality, liveliness, attraction, great attraction, and unchallenged modernity. The essay explores the peoples’ lifestyle in the city, Montreal urban planning, economic development, affordable housing reconstruction, racism, and class.
Social Life in Montreal City
Whether a visitor or lived in Montreal, the lifestyle is so attracting and friendly. People tend to enjoy life in the city. From the finding, the city is one of the best in the deals of foodstuffs, restaurants, finding a job, recycling of the plastics, laws governing driving, among others. Living in Montreal city is one way of enjoying life and walking away from stress. The people in the town are law-abiding, respectful, and portray a welcoming heart to the new faces in the city. One may desire to stay around and keep watching what is going on in the city. The finding pinpoints some of the observed and investigated reasons which make the lifestyle in Montreal be attractive to live. The observed and investigated cases include; walking without a car, stress area, affordable foodstuffs, and restaurants.
Inexpensive Groceries and Restaurants
In Montreal, there many ways of saving on food, particularly in fresh food produce. The town has become a home-based to most of the public markets where individuals tend to pick up raw meat, vegetables, eggs, fish, and fruits. Some of the markets explored include Atwater Market, Marche Maisonneuve, Jean-Talon Market, among others. The vivid way of pinching money is to take advantage of products when the season comes to producing such products in the market place. Consumers tend to find the best deals by modifying personal menus, thus meeting the seasonal drifts. Besides, the modification of the lists results in supporting the growers as well as the sellers. Moreover, the people in the city pool money together, thus having the power to buy food in bulk hence motivate the farmers in the farming sector.
On the other side, Montreal restaurants make people have value for owned monies. For instance, when an individual works hard to have cash at hand, the restaurant gives the option of offering different kinds of foods for every person to come for a meal according to their money. Among the best menus are found in Sparrow, Regine Café, and La Recolte restaurants. Late night meals are found in restaurants such as Patati Patata, Nouveau Palais, among others. Furthermore, according to the investigation, Montreal is one of the greatest cities having romantic dinners venues. When Montreal explored in the month like November, especially the annual Montreal restaurant week, including almost 150 restaurants, the places tend to have tables with aromatic and affordable foods.
Walking or Commuting Around Without Private Cars and Friendly to Stress Relief
Walking or commute without private cars in the city is affordable, safe, and even convenient to most of the citizen. The survey shows that one-third of the household in Montreal does not have a private car. In regard, the people in the city have an interest in using public transportation, green alternative which include the use of bicycles or walking. People apply STM Metro System to transit from one place to another. The system consists of taxi cars, buses, among others. The citizen believes that the STM system is the affordable, navigable and also can accommodate every citizen. BIXI feature in the city is also conveniently system used for public riding.
On the other hand, the city serves a stress release area. When people face challenges and tough moments, stress habitually tends to rise. Therefore, for a person to overcome the anxiety may need to challenge it by feeding the mind with the encouraging and enriching things around the surrounding. To handle such cases, Montreal is found to have various and great options to relax. Nearly all the options are available for every person, including young, old, rich, poor, healthy, or sedentary people. For example, the Montreal city encompasses, Montreal Flora lies Gardens, Westmount’s Summit Park, and even Botanical Gardens. People visit such places and get enriched with a positive thought, thus overcoming stress. Moreover, in the city yoga, free classes take place to help people release tension through meditation, as a result of promoting the fitness of the body.
Economy Development on Manufacturing and Transportation.
Manufacturing Sector
Many manufacturing companies in Montreal became attracted by the improvement of the transportation sector. In the 1880s, the construction of the canal and its development, oceangoing vessels to the town, rail advancements made Montreal became a center for international transcontinental travels of products and services. Consequently, manufacturing companies lined the Lachine Canal, to produce clothing, shoes, beverages, cotton goods, textiles, among other products. In the 20th century, the general movements from rail to road transport of products became matched by the airlifts of many companies away from Montreal to environs.
According to the historian, in the 1970s, globalization dared the economic capability of most manufacturers as well as labor-intensive companies in Montreal, such as clothing, shoemaking, and textiles, thus losing out to the global competition. The companies’ restructuring led to the loss of production jobs. However, over time, new industries emerged by embracing further technological advancement. For instance, the aerospace company has become a leading job creator in Quebec province. Thus, the industry has made Montreal become a headquarter home for the International Business Aviation Council, International Air Transportation Association, and International Civil Aviation Organization. Generally, the research and development in transport have become a critical component to Montreal’s industries, thus improving the overall economic growth of the city.
Transportation Sector
The sequential waterfalls on the St. Lawrence River west to Montreal acted as a block to oceangoing vessels to access the Great Lakes. Nevertheless, the obstacles were overcome in 1959 when the St. Lawrence Seaway was later opened, the joint undertaking of the Canadian and the U.S.A governments. The seaway, as well as the icebreakers in winter, tended to offer much higher entree to the North American continent centers and the surrounding Quebec port cities, including Quebec City and Baie Comeau. The boats could bypass Montreal in the transoceanic trade. As a result, Montreal started to invest in container services, thus becoming a leading city in the shipping services and transportation. In the 1950s, the automobiles and throughways proliferation continued in the town. In 1960 the Metropolitan Avenue, an east-west freeway that crossed the island, became opened.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Montreal became tormented by substantial traffic overcrowding that may have been at least partially a long-term significance of a cost-driven suspension on throughway building from 1977 to 1985. Currently, Montreal is a railway center where many rail traffic devotes shifting products. Moreover, the city provides a regular service to the passenger to the surrounding towns, including Toronto and Ottawa-Gatineau cities. To evidence about the transportation development in Montreal, the city is served by two main international airports: Montreal-Mirabel engaging in air cargo, and Montreal–Pierre Elliot Trudeau handling domestic and international commercial flights.
Future Montreal Urban Development
The urban and development planners have presently focused on the improvement of the Montreal city. The urban planners are finding a resolution for affordable housing, reconfiguration of roadways for better-quality vehicles, optimization of the public transit systems, the addition of green spaces, circulation of cyclist and pedestrian, among others. Besides, the developers encourage private development, thus supporting a new shape and breathe in the city.
Urban Housing development
In the housing development sector, the planners reconsider the governmental law as mandatory for building a specific number of off-market segments for every newly constructed residential house. The development intended to motivate other cities in the country to follow the same trend and improve the lifestyle of the citizens. The housing development will guarantee all the new residential houses consist of 20 percent social segments funded either wholly or partly by the government, 20 percent family units, and twenty percent affordable units in the city. According to research, the economic growth of Montreal city had significantly contributed to the escalation of the rent payment.
It is estimated that, in 2018, the house price increased by 4.1 percent compared with 2017. Therefore, the sharp rising of house prices forces the housing developers to implement the projects as soon as possible to reduce the overpayment of the rental rates by the citizen. From the investigation, when it comes to affordability in general, Montreal city seems to do better than other cities such as Vancouver and Toronto 44.5 percent of the average income from the household is used on housing costs unlike in Vancouver and Toronto, where the income percentage is 84.7 and 66.1 accordingly.
Green spaces and heritage
Montreal city desires to enlarge the percentage of guarded zones of the island to ten percent from the present five percent. The goal set by the Russell Copeman developer in charge of urban planning for the city stated the goal as ambitious to achieve. The 57 hectares zones occupied by the Meadowbrook Golf Course in the western part of the green is officially restricted to residentials. The Angell Woods in Beaconsfield declared as a conservation area, also increases the green space in the city. The declaration is helped by the environmental expert together with urban planners setting up regulatory measures in protecting heritage and include new regulations in construction. In other words, the constructors should fulfill the mandate of safeguarding significant scenic views, expand the accessibility of shorelines along blue corridors and raise green corridors, thus acting as a route for both human and wildlife life.
Densification of the city, rail safety and buying land for social development housing
Montreal city needs to lay out a plan of increasing the population density, mainly closer to the downtown core. The program is precisely in the zone, which is well-served by public transportation, thus reducing vehicular growth. In other words, the project shall create more commercial and residential spaces in areas that are close to transit areas. Or even creating transport zones were projected to have commercial or residential in the future. Moreover, the spacing plan should be done along the rail lines and also in high-traffic zones.
On the other side, the urban developers have planned the program to plant around 300,000 trees to improve the livability of the human in Montreal by 2022. A well-planned and green managed set up city tends to be resilient, equitable, and sustainable in response to nutrition and food security, eradication of poverty, the advancement of livelihood, hazards risk reduction, conservation of ecosystems, climate change mitigation, and adaptation. Therefore, the lifetime of the tree’s benefits tends to be more than the cost investment that occurred during planting or even carrying the same trees.
Conclusion
To conclude and comment on the new Montreal city. I can say that the modern city is one of the best cities in the world. The old Montreal suffered from colonialism wars. As a result, industries closed the respective business due to lack of transportation, including pathways of transporting goods from the neighboring cities. The new Montreal has developed in terms of infrastructures. For instance, the city is served by two main international airports: Montreal-Mirabel, and Montreal–Pierre Elliot. In my view, Montreal city is affordable and less expensive to live in contrast to other cities such as Vancouver and Toronto, where life is suggestively to be costly. Cheap groceries, restaurants, and Old Montreal features such as cobblestones boulevards, cultural arts, historical architectures, and vibrant downtown Montreal make the city be tourist attractions.
I find a lot of people. Specifically, the professionals are welcoming and knowledgeable in respective fields. To mention a few, the developer’s planner could explain and sequentially give the developing plan layout of Montreal for the next ten years. The people working in diverse businesses are polite and gentle in handling customers. I noticed that the majority of the people are interactive since the city encompasses all international persons from all over the world, including French, white American as well as African. Lastly, I learned from the research, the excellent health and wealth of the people are essential for any economic and infrastructure development. If the governments engage in developing the urban cities through infrastructure contractions, rising environmental concerns, and setting future development plans will consequently affect the economic growth cities positively.
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