- 392 pages
- English
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Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront
About this book
Reshaping Toronto?s Waterfront is a fundamental resource for understanding the waterfront as a dynamic space that is neither fully tamed nor wholly uncontrolled.
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Table of contents
- 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
- 2 Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan
- 3 From Liability to Profitability: How Disease, Fear, and Medical Science Cleaned Up the Marshes of Ashbridgeâs Bay
- 4 From Feast to Famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan
- 5 A Social History of a Changing Environment: The Don River Valley, 1910â1931
- 6 Boundaries and Connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridgeâs Bay
- 7 Networks of Power: Torontoâs Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970
- Part Two: Shaping The Post-Industrial Waterfront
- 8 Creating an Environment for Change: The âEcosystem Approachâ and the Olympics on Torontoâs Waterfront
- 9 From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Governmentâs Role in Waterfront Development
- 10 Cleaning Up on the Waterfront: Development of Contaminated Sites
- 11 Whoâs in Charge? Jurisdictional Gridlock and the Genesis of Waterfront Toronto
- 12 Public-Private Sector Alliances in Sustainable Waterfront Revitalization: Policy, Planning, and Design in the West Don Lands
- 13 Socio-ecological Change in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Lower Don River
- References
- Contributors
- Index