Aurèle Cardinal is a Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 architect

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, urban planner

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An urban planner or city planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning/land use planning for the purpose of optimizing the effectiveness of a community's land use and infrastructure. They formulate plans for the development and management of urban and suburban areas, typically...

 and academic. In 2007, his plan for the Outremont

Outremont

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 campus of the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

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 received the award of excellence for urban design

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 from the Canadian Institute of Planners

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. Cardinal, who is a partner in Groupe Cardinal Hardy, conceived the plan in collaboration with Groupe Provencher & Roy architectes, another Quebec firm. He has also taught at the university's Faculty of Management since 1979

In the early 1990s, Cardinal collaborated with Peter Rose

Peter Rose (architect)

Peter Rose Peter Rose Peter Rose (b. Aug. 1, 1943, is an architect in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Rose's best-known work to date is the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), which was designed by Rose with CCA founder Phyllis Lambert as consulting architect and Erol Argun as associate architect...

 on the redevelopment of the Old Port of Montreal

Old Port of Montreal

Stretching for over two kilometres along the St-Lawrence River in Old Montreal, the Old Port Of Montreal has been the social, economic and cultural soul of Montreal ever since early French fur traders used it as a trading post in 1611...

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Cardinal Hardy and Provencher & Roy also collaborated on the design of the Cité Multimédia district.