As part of the preliminary draft of an international competition to design a master plan of the Pointe-du-Moulin in Montreal, the Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at the University of Montreal, in partnership with Plan Canada Lands Company (CLC), conducted a research markup previous projects concerning international project competition for completion of a Master urban Design Plan .

This research project aimed to encourage a discussion and to select and endorse an international competition formula in order to design a master plan for the area of Pointe-du-Moulin.

The first step of this endeavour was to provide an overall assessment of 5 competitions having led to planning tools. The second step was to provide a detailed study of the terms and procedures of identified referents and to analyze the advantages and structuring effects of the process of international competitions.

The following competitions were part of our analysis:

• BNE: Making Connections, Brisbane, Australia (2011)
• International Urban Design Competition for Wellesley Road and Park Lane, Croydon, United-Kingdom (2008-2009)
• Edmonton City Centre Redevelopment, Edmonton, Canada (2010-2011)
• Nya Årstafältet, Stockholm, Sweden (2008-2009)
• Lower Don Lands Design Competition, Toronto, Canada (2007)

Following this research, the CUPEUM initiated a prospective planning exercise on the future site of the Pointe-du-Moulin de Montreal vision. 

Principal Researcher

• Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec
  Professor Emeritus École d’urbanisme et d’architecture de paysage / Associate Researcher UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Membre fondateur UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM)

Co-reasearcher

• Sylvain Paquette
  University of Montreal / Full Professor School of Urbanism and Landscape Architecture / Principal Researcher Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM) / Associate Researcher UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)

Research Agent

• Marc Chenouda
  Research Agent Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM) / Student School of Architecture

• Design urbain
• Identité et lieu
• Qualité et cadre de vie

Financing partners

• Canada Lands Company

Other partners

• UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)
• Canada Lands Company