Reshaping Toronto's waterfront / edited by Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desfor, Gene.

Laidley, Jennefer, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waterfronts--Ontario--Toronto--History.

Waterfronts.

City planning--Ontario--Toronto--History.

City planning.

History.

Toronto (Ont.)--History.

Toronto (Ont.).

Ontario--Toronto.

Physical Description:

xii, 378 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Summary:

"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 waterfront is being marketed as a crucial territorial wedge for economic ascendancy in globally competitive urban areas.

Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront analyses how and why 'problem spaces' on the waterfront have become 'opportunity spaces' during the past hundred and fifty years. Contributors with diverse areas of expertise illuminate processes of development and provide fresh analyses of the intermingling of nature and society as they appear in both physical forms and institutional arrangements, which define and produce change. Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront is a fundamental resource for understanding the waterfront as a dynamic space that is neither fully tamed nor wholly uncontrolled."--pub. desc.

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 Femine: 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442640276

1442640278

9781442610019

1442610018

OCLC:

701243935