The City of Montréal has made a commitment to leveraging sustainability and creativity with the acquisition of the Montréal 2030 Agenda. To achieve exemplary quality in design and architecture, the City made designers and architects front-line allies to negotiate its green and social transition.
From left to right, front : Caroline Dubuc, Johanne Couture, Véronique Doucet, Frédérique Bélair-Bonnet, Anjali Mishra, Sonia Vibert, Sylvie Champeau, Marie-Claude Séguin, Marie-Josée Lacroix, Béatrice Carabin | Back : Rafik Salama, André Cazelais, Jean Laberge, Louis Routhier, Benoît Gariépy, Denis Lemieux, Diane Cantin, Serge Lamontagne
Photo credit: Mathieu Rivard
The Agenda is inspired by best practices in design and architecture around the world. It took shape through a broad-based process of consultation that involved the city administration?s internal teams along with the design/architecture business ecosystem and civil-society stakeholders. Montréal?s Agenda defines guiding principles for ensuring quality in design and architecture and determines priority actions. According to the City, it will manifest itself in the cross-cutting integration of objectives and measures in all of its current and future plans and policies.
?Montréal benefits from a rich pool of talents in all disciplines of design and a diversified, buoyant ecosystem of businesses, universities and research centres to ensure our economic vitality in a context of ecological transition,?said Rober...