Desfor / Laidley Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6191-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Desfor, Gene

Laidley, Jennefer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionPART ONE: FORGING THE INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT1 Planning for Change: Harbour Commissions, Civil Engineers, and Large-Scale Manipulation of Nature
MICHAEL MOIR2 Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan
GENE DESFOR, LUCIAN VESALON, AND JENNEFER LAIDLEY3 From Liability to Profitabilit: How Disease, Fear, and Medical Science Cleaned Up the Marshes of Ashbridge's Bay
PAUL S.B. JACKSON4 From Feast to Famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan
MICHAEL MOIR5 A Social History of a Changing Environment: The Don River Valley, 1910-1931
JENNIFER BONNELL6 Boundaries and Connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay
TENLEY CONWAY7 Networks of Power: Toronto's Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970
SCOTT PRUDHAM, GUNTER GAD, AND RICHARD ANDERSONPART TWO: SHAPING THE POST-INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT8 Creating an Environment for Change: The 'Ecosystem Approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's Waterfront
JENNEFER LAIDLEY9 From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government's Role in Waterfront Development
CHRISTOPHER SANDERSON AND PIERRE FILION10 Cleaning Up on the Waterfront: Development of Contaminated Sites
HON Q. LU AND GENE DESFOR11 Who's in Charge?: Jurisdictional Gridlock and the Genesis of Waterfront Toronto
GABRIEL EIDELMAN12 Public-Private Sector Alliances in Sustainable Waterfront Revitalization: Policy, Planning, and Design in the West Don Lands
SUSANNAH BUNCE13 Socio-ecological Change in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Lower Don River
GENE DESFOR AND JENNIFER BONNELLReferences ContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

DesforGene:
Gene Desfor is a professor emeritus and senior scholar in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.LaidleyJennefer:
Jennefer Laidley holds an MES in Urban Planning from the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.