Vincent Ponte
Vincent Pasciuto Ponte (October 27, 1919 – February 9, 2006) [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/classified/paid-notice-deaths-ponte-vincent-pasciuto.html Paid Notice: Deaths PONTE, VINCENT PASCIUTO] was a Canadian Modernist urban planner in Montreal, Quebec. Ponte was born in Boston, MA.{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|434304280}} |last1=Hustak |first1=Alan |title=World-class urban designer fell in love with Montreal |work=The Gazette |location=Montreal |date=12 March 2006 |page=A14 }}
Ponte received a fine arts degree from Harvard and worked for the architecture firm I.M. Pei. He drafted the master plans for both Place Ville Marie and Place Bonaventure. Ponte also designed the underground malls in Montreal and the Dallas.{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/forty-years-ago-a-man-had-a-plan-for-downtown-dallas-7127397|title=Forty Years Ago, A Man Had a Plan for Downtown Dallas ...|first=Robert|last=Wilonsky|date=5 May 2008|publisher=}}
Quotes
"By the year 2000 the Queen Elizabeth will be a fleabag. It's all part of the way society changes. We don't build things to last anymore. We're affluent and we can afford to keep throwing things away and replacing them with newer, bigger and better."Gabeline, Donna, Dane Laken, and Gordon Pape. 1975. Montreal at the Crossroads. Montreal: Harvest House. p. 123.
"All the great cities of the world were created by kings and emperors – who had taste. You just can't stop everything. You have to let development continue. There are too many investments, too much money at stake."Gabeline, Donna, Dane Laken, and Gordon Pape. 1975. Montreal at the Crossroads. Montreal: Harvest House. p. 175.
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