Visit to the Cité-Jardin

24heures looks at the Cité-Jardin, one of the quirkier corners of town. The original layout was more ambitious and included a shopping centre, public pool, a church and more than 600 houses, but the eventual project only has 167 houses and no services at all, as pointed out by one resident – “Pour la bouffe, les épiceries de quartiers, les cafés, il y a fuck all.”

The journalist also found a design professor who says the area is completely without interest, a curious pose. One of the houses was the residence of Jean Drapeau, as noted – but the journalist doesn’t mention how it must have been rebuilt after being blown up by a bomb in 1969. (This last link may take some time – the BAnQ’s newspaper archive is very slow.)