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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Laidley, Jennefer, 1969-, Desfor, Gene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Waterfronts.
Urban renewal.
City planning.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
Fronts de mer > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire.
Renovation urbaine > Ontario > Toronto > Histoire.
City planning > Ontario > Toronto > History.
Waterfronts > Ontario > Toronto > History.
Urban renewal > Ontario > Toronto > History.
Ontario > Toronto.
Toronto (Ont.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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