Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Dramatis Personae xv
7. Illustrations xvii
8. Introduction
9. Synopsis: The Cult of Giantism 3
10. Language: Quebec’s Necessary Obsession 31
11. Westmount Then and Now 54
12. The Story
13. Political Eunuchs and Fiscal Footmen 85
14. Metropolitan Montreal: Suffocated by Structures 110
15. Merger Plans, the MUC, and a Metropolitan Miscarriage 134
16. A Quebec Divided: Partition and Downloading 157
17. The Seduction of Simplicity: Turn the MUC into a City? 181
18. Montreal’s Disease: Suburban Parasites or Chronic Maladministration? 204
19. Quebec’s Remedy: A Huge New Government or a Huge New City? 234
20. Walking into a Trap 264
21. Hope and Betrayal: Bernard Proposes, Bouchard Disposes 295
22. If You Can’t Ride Two Horses, You Shouldn’t Be in the Circus 322
23. Forced to Play the Language Card 349
24. A Fight to the Finish 374
25. The Poitras Report and a Liberal Victory or, How Mergers Hijacked the Provincial Election Campaign 399
26. A Megacity Legitimized by the Indifferent and the Absent 424
27. Rebirth for Some, Complexity for All 449
28. Scandals, A Swollen Payroll, and An Uncelebrated Tenth Birthday 473
29. Making Good: Rebuilding Montreal’s Local and Regional Government 496
30. The Montreal Megacity by Numbers: Performance versus Promise 522
31. Notes 539
32. Bibliography 639
33. Index 649