Reshaping Torontos waterfront Reshaping Torontos 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 Torontos 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 Torontos 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