December 9, 2022

By Guillaume Lessard
Two major challenges to sustainable urbanization in North America are the environmental, social and economic impacts of urban sprawl, and the growing socio-economic inequalities associated with housing and mobility. Several government policies and programs address these issues. However, depending on how they are implemented, interventions in these sectors can lead to the reinforcement of structural and cultural barriers specific to urban sprawl, as well as the exacerbation of pre-existing socio-economic inequalities.

By Caroline Côté
ILEAU is a greening campaign created in 2015 coordinated by the Conseil régional de l'environnement de Montréal that is being rolled out in eight boroughs in eastern Montreal. The ILEAU campaign has developed a series of actions aimed at greening and creating islands of freshness through the involvement of different milieus: community, institutional and corporate. A vision of collective action federated in the large-scale green and active grid project mobilizes organizations and citizens to improve living and working environments in the east end of Montreal.

By Naomie Léonard, Hélène Madénian and Gabrielle Perras St-Jean
As part of its fight against climate change, taking gender into account from an intersectional perspective would enable the City of Montreal to avoid certain pitfalls, such as reproducing sexist biases and stereotypes, and exacerbating inequalities between genders and between women themselves. This text is a summary of the research that led to the publication of the Avis du Conseil des Montréalaises pour une transition écologique juste et féministe à Montréal November 2, 2022.