Abstract
Former birthplace of Canadian industrialization, Pointe-Saint-Charles is a neighborhood located near the center of Montreal-QC, in confrontation with an accelerated process of urban revitalization since the 1990s. Faced with this recent process, local grassroots organizations have undertaken diverse struggles, such as the Popular Planning Operations - OPA's, first experienced in 2004. This paper seeks to measure how these practices influence the decision-making power that acts over the local territorial frame. Therefore, we aim to understand these practices constitution as an insurgent planning, as defined by Miraftab (2009, 2016) and Purcell (2009). The methodology included the revision of the concept of insurgent planning, as well as the collection of primary data such as testimonies, consultation of community documents and technical visits to the referred Montreal’s neighborhood. As final considerations, we concluded that the OPA’s in Pointe-Saint-Charles constitutes important spaces of counterpower in relation to the institutional urban planning, capable of obtaining material and symbolic gains from the point of view of the local residents. These practices bring together elements that point to an open field of possibilities in relation to a necessary change in contemporary urban planning.
Keywords:
Urban planning; Insurgency; Neoliberal urbanization; Institutional participation
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