Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront /

Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront / / Jennefer Laidley, Gene Desfor.

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Large-scale development is once again putting Toronto's waterfront at the leading edge of change. As in other cities around the world, policymakers, planners, and developers are envisioning the waterfront as a space of promise and a prime location for massive investments. Currently, the waterfr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
TeilnehmendeR:
Desfor, Gene ,
Laidley, Jennefer,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2011
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Forging The Industrial Waterfront
  • 1 Planning for Change: Harbour Commissions, Civil Engineers, and Large-Scale Manipulation of Nature / Moir, Michael
  • 2 Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan / Desfor, Gene / Vesalon, Lucian / Laidley, Jennefer
  • 3 From Liability to Profitability: How Disease, Fear, and Medical Science Cleaned Up the Marshes of Ashbridge's Bay / Jackson, Paul S.B.
  • 4 From Feast to Famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan / Moir, Michael
  • 5 A Social History of a Changing Environment: The Don River Valley, 1910-1931 / Bonnell, Jennifer
  • 6 Boundaries and Connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay / Conway, Tenley
  • 7 Networks of Power: Toronto's Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970 / Prudham, Scott / Gad, Gunter / Anderson, Richard
  • Part Two: Shaping The Post-Industrial Waterfront
  • 8 Creating an Environment for Change: The 'Ecosystem Approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's Waterfront / Laidley, Jennefer
  • 9 From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government's Role in Waterfront Development / Sanderson, Christopher / Filion, Pierre
  • 10 Cleaning Up on the Waterfront: Development of Contaminated Sites / Lu, Hon Q. / Desfor, Gene
  • 11 Who's in Charge? Jurisdictional Gridlock and the Genesis of Waterfront Toronto / Eidelman, Gabriel
  • 12 Public-Private Sector Alliances in Sustainable Waterfront Revitalization: Policy, Planning, and Design in the West Don Lands / Bunce, Susannah
  • 13 Socio-ecological Change in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Lower Don River / Desfor, Gene / Bonnell, Jennifer
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index

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