ABSTRACT
Laval University’s planning commission (CAMEO) delineated a 24-hectare site at the fringe of the campus for the development of a new mixed-use neighbourhood. This area is bordered by a post-war suburban neighbourhood with a not-so-thriving high street, private student accommodations in poorly maintained 1960s’ three-storey apartment buildings, the university sports pavilion and a boulevard marking an anonymous campus entrance. Since it was argued during the hearings that the university should favour collaborative planning methods for the redesign of its campus, the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Suburbs (GIRBa1
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planning commission included a few guidelines to frame the intervention, one being that the university retains ownership of the land but will sell rights-to-build to private developers through long-term leaseholds.
