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Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (391 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442661912
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reshaping Toronto's WaterfrontLOC classification:
  • HT178.C22.R474 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: FORGING THE INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT -- 1 Planning for Change: Harbour Commissions, Civil Engineers, and Large-Scale Manipulation of Nature -- 2 Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan -- 3 From Liability to Profitability: How Disease, Fear, and Medical Science Cleaned Up the Marshes of Ashbridge's Bay -- 4 From Feast to Famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan -- 5 A Social History of a Changing Environment: The Don River Valley, 1910-1931 -- 6 Boundaries and Connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay -- 7 Networks of Power: Toronto's Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970 -- PART TWO: SHAPING THE POST-INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT -- 8 Creating an Environment for Change: The 'Ecosystem Approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's Waterfront -- 9 From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government's Role in Waterfront Development -- 10 Cleaning Up on the Waterfront: Development of Contaminated Sites -- 11 Who's in Charge? Jurisdictional Gridlock and the Genesis of Waterfront Toronto -- 12 Public-Private Sector Alliances in Sustainable Waterfront Revitalization: Policy, Planning, and Design in the West Don Lands -- 13 Socio-ecological Change in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Lower Don River -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.
Summary: Reshaping Toronto's Waterfrontis a fundamental resource for understanding the waterfront as a dynamic space that is neither fully tamed nor wholly uncontrolled.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: FORGING THE INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT -- 1 Planning for Change: Harbour Commissions, Civil Engineers, and Large-Scale Manipulation of Nature -- 2 Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan -- 3 From Liability to Profitability: How Disease, Fear, and Medical Science Cleaned Up the Marshes of Ashbridge's Bay -- 4 From Feast to Famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan -- 5 A Social History of a Changing Environment: The Don River Valley, 1910-1931 -- 6 Boundaries and Connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay -- 7 Networks of Power: Toronto's Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970 -- PART TWO: SHAPING THE POST-INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT -- 8 Creating an Environment for Change: The 'Ecosystem Approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's Waterfront -- 9 From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government's Role in Waterfront Development -- 10 Cleaning Up on the Waterfront: Development of Contaminated Sites -- 11 Who's in Charge? Jurisdictional Gridlock and the Genesis of Waterfront Toronto -- 12 Public-Private Sector Alliances in Sustainable Waterfront Revitalization: Policy, Planning, and Design in the West Don Lands -- 13 Socio-ecological Change in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Lower Don River -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.

Reshaping Toronto's Waterfrontis a fundamental resource for understanding the waterfront as a dynamic space that is neither fully tamed nor wholly uncontrolled.

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