Reshaping Toronto's waterfront
"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 w...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Desfor, Gene. Laidley, Jennefer, 1969- |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011. |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Table of Contents:
- Planning for change: Harbour Commission, civil engineers, and large-scale manipulation of nature
- Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan
- From liability to profitability: How disease, fear, and medical science cleaned up the marshes of Ashbridge's Bay
- From feast to famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan
- A social history of a changing environment: The Don River Valley, 1910-1931
- Boundaries and connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay
- Networks of power: Toronto's waterfront energy systems from 1840 to 1970
- Creating an environment for change: The 'ecosystem approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's waterfront
- From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government's role in the waterfront development
- Cleaning up on the waterfront: Development of contaminated sites
- Who's in charge? Jurisdictional gridlock and the genesis of waterfront Toronto
- Public-private sector alliances in sustainable waterfront revitalization: Policy, planning, and design in the West Don Lands
- Socio-ecological change in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries: The Lower Don River.