The mountain in the city: Social uses and transformations of a natural landform in urban space

被引:9
作者
Debarbieux, B [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Grenoble 1, Inst Alpine Geog, Grenoble, France
来源
ECUMENE | 1998年 / 5卷 / 04期
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D O I
10.1191/096746098701555918
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Mount Royal emerges with a few other hills from the remarkable flat, wide plain of Montreal. Its height in modest (200m); in modern parlance, it is a 'hill'. A very strong and specific bond has developed over the centuries between Montrealers and the Mountain. During that time, Mount Royal has been deeply transformed. Such transformations have taken place with attention to its personality, to the specific place it occupies in the landscape and to the imagination of local people. Today, four cemeteries, a large and beautiful park, monumental buildings and wealthy residential districts are gathered there. Together with the landform itself, these compose a landscape dramatically different from its surroundings. Mount Royal's natural specificity has not only been kept but consciously elaborated through history. These few historical and morphological facts introduce this study of relationships between a natural phenomenon and a city. I stress three questions: how natural landforms located in urban environments are socially identified and connoted; how different meanings successively or simultaneously attached to these landforms may explain the way they are shaped and integrated into urban landscapes; and more, specifically, what does it means for the Mount Royal to be called 'the Mountain'? How does this name simulataneously refer to a geeric category of landforms, to a special kind of valued landscape, and to a very specific place in the Montreal area?.
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