The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles : Development, Sprawl, and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region /
"The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues an...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Development, sprawl, and conservation on the Oak Ridges Moraine
- 2 The Surfacing of a landform : historical representations of the Oak Ridges Moraine
- 3 Nature conservation planning in South-Central Ontario : a flashpoint
- 4 Residents speak for the Moraine
- 5 Taking a stand : preserving place and nature on the Moraine
- 6 Conservation planning in the service of growth
- 7 Producing exclusive landscape aesthetics
- 8 Conclusion : wrestling with development, sprawl, and nature conser vation
- Appendix 1: Oak Ridges Moraine chronology.