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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Desfor, Gene.
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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