Lasting legacy: re-designing Montréal’s 1976 Olympic Park for future flexibility in a new era of Olympic urbanism
| dc.contributor.author | Glowacki, Matthew | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Trottier, Jean (Landscape Architecture) | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Valois, Nicole (School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Montréal) | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Tate, Alan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-25T15:54:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-25T15:54:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-03-23 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2025-03-23T15:58:11Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Landscape Architecture | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.Arch.) | |
| dc.description.abstract | Lasting Legacy: Re-Designing Montréal’s 1976 Olympic Park for Future Flexibility in a New Era of Olympic Urbanism will examine how a neglected Olympic Park can be re-designed to become an accessible public space that actively engages and connects with its context. Although some consideration for an infrastructural and programmatic legacy was a part of the planning in the years leading up to the 1976 Olympic Games, the burden of delayed construction, political shifts, and impeding controversy over rising costs diverted attention from the park’s future and prevented Montréal from benefiting from a positive legacy. As a consequence, this practicum seeks to demonstrate how proposing to re-host the Olympic Games can serve as a catalyst for re-designing Montréal's Parc Olympique to serve a more favourable and adaptable legacy that's appropriate for its long-term life. This re-design aims to provide a framework for how the spaces that make up Parc Olympique should be restructured and how they should be linked into the surrounding context. As a secondary focus, the re-design will also honour the heritage value of the park through preservation, conservation, and renovation of its original character elements to heighten its position as a Canadian Heritage landscape. As a historically significant landscape, the 1976 Montréal Olympic Park should be preserved by increasing relevance and flexibility in its function as an urban park to establish a lasting legacy for the city. The idea of a new era in Olympic urbanism references new thinking toward re-use and retrofit of existing venues which the current Paris 2024 and LA 2028 editions of the games have adopted and applies this thinking to existing Olympic Parks. | |
| dc.description.note | May 2025 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/39048 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.subject | Landscape Heritage | |
| dc.subject | Modernist Landscapes | |
| dc.subject | Canadian Landscapes | |
| dc.subject | Olympic Legacy | |
| dc.subject | Adaptable Design | |
| dc.subject | Heritage Preservation | |
| dc.title | Lasting legacy: re-designing Montréal’s 1976 Olympic Park for future flexibility in a new era of Olympic urbanism | |
| local.subject.manitoba | no | |
| oaire.awardTitle | Barkman |