Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront.
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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Other Authors / Creators: | Laidley, Jennefer. Laidley, Jennefer. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011. |
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of 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 Ashbridge's 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, 1910-1931
- 6 Boundaries and Connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay
- 7 Networks of Power: Toronto's Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970
- PART TWO: SHAPING THE POST-INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT
- 8 Creating an Environment for Change: The 'Ecosystem Approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's Waterfront
- 9 From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government's Role in Waterfront Development
- 10 Cleaning Up on the Waterfront: Development of Contaminated Sites
- 11 Who's 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
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