| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
1. Planning for change: Harbour Commission, civil engineers, and large-scale manipulation of nature / Michael Moir -- 2. Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan / Gene Desfor, Lucian Vesalon, and Jennefer Laidley -- 3. From liability to profitability: how disease, fear, and medical science cleaned up the marshes of Ashbridge's Bay / Paul S.B. Jackson -- 4. From feast to famine: shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan / Michael Moir -- 5. A social history of a changing environment: the Don River Valley, 1910-1931 / Jennifer Bonnell -- 6. Boundaries and connectivity: the Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay / Tenley Conway -- 7. Networks of power: Toronto's waterfront energy systems from 1840 to 1970 / Scott Prudham, Gunter Gad, and Richard Anderson -- 8. Creating an environment for change: the 'ecosystem approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's waterfront / Jennefer Laidley-- 9. From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: institutionalizing the Federal Government's role in the waterfront development / Christopher Sanderson and Pierre Filion -- 10. Cleaning up on the waterfront: Development of contaminated sites / Hon Q. Lu and Gene Desfor -- 11. Who's in charge?: jurisdictional gridlock and the genesis of waterfront Toronto / Gabriel Eidelman -- 12. Public-private sector alliances in sustainable waterfront revitalization: policy, planning, and design in the West Don Lands / Susannah Bunce -- 13. Socio-ecological change in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries: the Lower Don River / Gene Desfor and Jennifer Bonnell |
| Summary |
"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 waterfront is being marketed as a crucial territorial wedge for economic ascendancy in globally competitive urban areas |
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Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront analyses how and why 'problem spaces' on the waterfront have become 'opportunity spaces' during the past hundred and fifty years. Contributors with diverse areas of expertise illuminate processes of development and provide fresh analyses of the intermingling of nature and society as they appear in both physical forms and institutional arrangements, which define and produce change. Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront is a fundamental resource for understanding the waterfront as a dynamic space that is neither fully tamed nor wholly uncontrolled."--Pub. desc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Urban renewal -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
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Waterfronts -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
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City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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City planning
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Urban renewal
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Waterfronts
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| SUBJECT |
Toronto (Ont.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136127
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| Subject |
Ontario -- Toronto
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Desfor, Gene.
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Laidley, Jennefer, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2011378253 |
| ISBN |
9781442661912 |
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1442661917 |
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9781442685239 |
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1442685239 |
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