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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desfor, Gene, editor.

Laidley, Jennefer, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban renewal--Ontario--Toronto--History.

Urban renewal.

Waterfronts--Ontario--Toronto--History.

Waterfronts.

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

City planning.

Toronto (Ont.)--History.

Toronto (Ont.).

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

"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.

Contents:

1. Planning for change: Harbour Commission, civil engineers, and large-scale manipulation of nature / Michael Moir

2. Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan / Gene Desfor, Lucian Vesalon, and Jennifer Laildy

3. From liability to profitability: how disease, fear, and medical science cleaned up the marshes of Ashbridge's Bay / Paul S.B. Jackson

4. From feast to famine: shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan / Michael Moir

5. A social history of a changing environment: the Don River Valley, 1910-1931 / Jennifer Bonnell

6. Boundaries and connectivity: the Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay / Tenley Conway

7. Networks of power: Toronto's waterfront energy systems from 1840 to 1970 / Scott Prudham, Gunter Gad, and Richard Anderson

8. Creating an environment for change: the 'ecosystem approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's waterfront / Jennifer Laidley

9. From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: institutionalizing the Federal Government's role in the waterfront development / Christopher Sanderson and Pierre Filion

10. Cleaning up on the waterfront: Development of contaminated sites / Hon Q. Lu and Gene Desfor

11. Who's in charge?: jurisdictional gridlock and the genesis of waterfront Toronto / Gabriel Eidelman

12. Public-private sector alliances in sustainable waterfront revitalization: policy, planning, and design in the West Don Lands / Susannah Bunce

13. Socio-ecological change in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries: the Lower Don River / Gene Desfor and Jennifer Bonnell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781442685239

1442685239

9781442661912

1442661917

OCLC:

806255507