Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront
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Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront

Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront

Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley

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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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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781442661912
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures
  3. Tables
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part One: Forging The Industrial Waterfront
  7. 1 Planning for Change: Harbour Commissions, Civil Engineers, and Large-Scale Manipulation of Nature
  8. 2 Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan
  9. 3 From Liability to Profitability: How Disease, Fear, and Medical Science Cleaned Up the Marshes of Ashbridge’s Bay
  10. 4 From Feast to Famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan
  11. 5 A Social History of a Changing Environment: The Don River Valley, 1910–1931
  12. 6 Boundaries and Connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge’s Bay
  13. 7 Networks of Power: Toronto’s Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970
  14. Part Two: Shaping The Post-Industrial Waterfront
  15. 8 Creating an Environment for Change: The ‘Ecosystem Approach’ and the Olympics on Toronto’s Waterfront
  16. 9 From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government’s Role in Waterfront Development
  17. 10 Cleaning Up on the Waterfront: Development of Contaminated Sites
  18. 11 Who’s in Charge? Jurisdictional Gridlock and the Genesis of Waterfront Toronto
  19. 12 Public-Private Sector Alliances in Sustainable Waterfront Revitalization: Policy, Planning, and Design in the West Don Lands
  20. 13 Socio-ecological Change in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Lower Don River
  21. References
  22. Contributors
  23. Index