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In Québec, the tensions between the central city (or downtown) and the suburbs were recently made manifest - indeed, crystallised - in the debates surrounding the municipal amalgamations that took place in January 2002. Space has thus been transformed, as have its vision in the eyes of its residents and their use of it. Yet practice and representation not only reflect the structural transformations of space; they contribute to these very transformations. We will examine here the dynamic between centre and suburb in the Montréal metropolitan area, based on data collected in 1978 by researchers at INRS-Urbanisation, which we briefly compare with other more recent data (Vachon and Luka 2002). We analyse the representations of city and suburb, travel behaviour related to work and consumption, and the ‘spatial identities’ for residents of the central city, inner suburbs, and outer suburbs. This step back in time reveals that even as early as 1978, the centre was no longer ‘central’ in the representations, practices, and aspirations of the residents of several suburbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]