Innovative Transit-oriented development projects in Greater Montréal: design, implementation and effects of a new urban planning instrument

Maulat, Juliette; Scherrer, Florence Paulhiac; Scherrer, Franck

doi:10.4000/metropoles.6533

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“…In this context, some regional governments and certain municipalities have developed new instruments aimed at ensuring better implementation of TOD projects at the local level (Maulat, Paulhiac Scherrer, and Scherrer 2018). Although the nature of these instruments varies, it clearly reveals that coordination is a key issue and that certain changes have been made with regard to urban collective action.…”

Section: Tod: a Normative Urban Model Looking For A Modus Operandimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although TOD has been planned for in many Canadian cities, it has rarely been concretely implemented and has proven only partly successful (Grant 2002) or difficult to consolidate (Filion 2009). The model has required some adjustments depending on the local contexts in which they were applied (Cournoyer-Gendron 2017; Lan Xu 2017; Maulat, Paulhiac Scherrer, and Scherrer 2018). As is the case in other national contexts (Cervero, Ferrell, and Murphy 2002;Curtis, Renne, and Bertolini 2009), the different projects carried out in Canada appear diverse, even disparate (Filion and Kramer 2012).…”

Section: Tod Implementation In Canadian Cities: An Emerging Field Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the TOD model flourishing, and given the issues related to its implementation, comparative approaches are being developed in an effort to identify key factors of TOD success or failure in Canada (see Table 1). Various scales of analysis are used: international comparison of different metropolitan contexts, including Canadian cases (Tan, Bertolini, and Janssen-Jansen 2014; Bertolini 2014, 2017) and comparison of specific projects in different Canadian cities (Brewer and Grant 2015;Grant 2009) or within the same city (Lan Xu 2017; Maulat, Paulhiac Scherrer, and Scherrer 2018). The objectives and scope differ.…”

Section: Understanding the Implementation Of Tod: Meta-and Meso-analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The objectives and scope differ. Thus, meta-analyses define general conditions that foster the implementation of TOD regardless of local contingencies Bertolini 2014, 2017), whereas meso-analyses define categories of factors that can potentially affect certain projects in a variety of specific contexts, at the regional (Tan, Bertolini, and Janssen-Jansen 2014) or local level (Grant 2009;Maulat, Paulhiac Scherrer, and Scherrer 2018). Finally, several of these approaches provide solutions designed to help create the right conditions for implementing TOD-some of which are more directly related to decision making (Tan, Bertolini, and Janssen-Jansen 2014; Bertolini 2014, 2017).…”

Section: Understanding the Implementation Of Tod: Meta-and Meso-analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Vision and role of mayors in 12 TOD projects of the Montreal area (Cournoyer-Gendron 2017). Methods and instruments for project implementation (Maulat, Paulhiac Scherrer, and Scherrer 2018).…”

Section: Understanding the Conditions Of Tod Implementation: The Central Role Of Politics And Institutionsmentioning

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Assessing Transit-Oriented Development Implementation in Canadian Cities: An Urban Project Approach

Scherrer

2019

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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This article presents a new theoretical approach for assessing the implementation process of transit-oriented development (TOD). Through a conceptual framework, based on the notion of the urban project as an instrument of public policy, it highlights two distinct processes at work in the implementation of every TOD project: territorialization and differentiation. The first suggests that there are necessarily discrepancies between metropolitan planning strategies and the very local nature of the TOD projects. The second suggests that implementing a TOD project is an incremental process rooted in local policy conditions that must be factored in at every phase of the implementation process.

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Section: Tod: a Normative Urban Model Looking For A Modus Operandimentioning

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Section: Tod Implementation In Canadian Cities: An Emerging Field Of Knowledgementioning

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Assessing Transit-Oriented Development Implementation in Canadian Cities: An Urban Project Approach

Scherrer

2019

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Contested densification: Sustainability, place and expectations at the urban fringe

Neste

Royer

2022

Front. Sustain. Cities

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The discourse of sustainability-by-density is dominant in urban policies and climate-friendly urbanism today. Yet, with current failures and disparities in the regulation of dense development and land speculation, the effects of such policies are not exclusively positive. In this article, we address citizen opposition to densification in urban peripheries of the Global North, especially in the North American context, with particular focus on a case at the urban fringe of the Montreal metropolitan area (Canada). We contribute to existing scholarship on a relational approach to urban sustainability with the objective of better understanding the narratives and governance dynamics that unfold in urban peripheries. In the case studied, the gap between residents' subjective experience of the ongoing transformations and the State discourses at different scales is particularly important, yet little understood after several years of public participatory meetings and two lawsuits. We develop the notion of situated expectations to show how actors entertain different expectations of the performance of State and citizen practices in favor of sustainability, which are grounded in their respective relationships to place, scale and the urban boundary. The lack of circulation and mutual recognition between these expectations makes the construction of coalitions and shared participatory governance practices much more problematic.

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L’émergence du stationnement-durable dans les TOD de banlieue. Regards croisés sur deux projets de la région montréalaise

Scherrer¹,

Vernier²

2020

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Alors que le Transit Oriented Development (TOD) s’impose comme le nouveau modèle d’urbanisme en Amérique du Nord, celui-ci soulève plusieurs enjeux pour l’action collective urbaine. Ceux-ci concernent tout d’abord les modalités de planification de ces nouveaux quartiers qui impliquent une coordination transport-urbanisme complexe à impulser. Ils concernent également le contenu des projets qui promeuvent un urbanisme et une mobilité durables. Les objectifs généraux de ces projets visent à contrer les dynamiques d’étalement urbain et de dépendance automobile. Dans cette perspective, la programmation du stationnement dans les TOD apparaît comme un élément essentiel des stratégies de mobilité durable. Le stationnement, généralement maximisé et pensé comme « stationnement transport » dans les politiques urbaines nord-américaines, est alors conçu et optimisé comme un « stationnement durable ». Le défi dans ce domaine est d’autant plus fort dans le contexte des banlieues caractérisé aujourd’hui par une forte dépendance à la voiture. Ainsi, cet article analyse la façon dont les acteurs de l’aménagement s’approprient ce nouveau concept et l’opérationnalisent. La recherche se penche sur la planification détaillée de deux TOD situés en banlieue montréalaise. Chaque projet est planifié au sein d’un Bureau de Projet multipartite. Les Bureaux développent une nouvelle approche consensuelle du stationnement : considéré comme un maillon clé de la mobilité durable, sa place dans l’espace public doit être restreinte, mieux intégrée au cadre bâti, et les externalités négatives qu’il engendre réduites (sociétale, environnementale, économique, etc.). Cependant, de nombreux risques entourent l’opérationnalisation de cette vision. Ainsi, les dynamiques de changement à l’œuvre se heurtent à quelques freins, parmi lesquels l’acceptabilité sociale des mesures joue un rôle majeur. Gérer ces freins suppose, pour la municipalité en charge des projets, des processus de négociation et de concertation qui dépassent largement le cadre et la temporalité des bureaux des projets.

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Innovative Transit-oriented development projects in Greater Montréal: design, implementation and effects of a new urban planning instrument

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Assessing Transit-Oriented Development Implementation in Canadian Cities: An Urban Project Approach

Assessing Transit-Oriented Development Implementation in Canadian Cities: An Urban Project Approach

Contested densification: Sustainability, place and expectations at the urban fringe

L’émergence du stationnement-durable dans les TOD de banlieue. Regards croisés sur deux projets de la région montréalaise

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