Reshaping Toronto's waterfront
By: edited by Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781442640276; 9781442610019
Subjects: Urban renewal; History; Waterfronts; City planning
Description: "Large-scale development is once again putting Toronto's 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.

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 intermingling of nature and society as they appear in both physical forms and institutional arrangements, which define and produce change. Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront is a fundamental resource for understanding the waterfront as a dynamic space that is neither fully tamed nor wholly uncontrolled."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Planning for change: Harbour Commission, civil engineers, and large-scale manipulation of nature; title: Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan; title: From liability to profitability: How disease, fear, and medical science cleaned up the marshes of Ashbridge's Bay; title: From feast to famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan; title: A social history of a changing environment: The Don River Valley, 1910-1931; title: Boundaries and connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay; title: Networks of power: Toronto's waterfront energy systems from 1840 to 1970; title: Creating an environment for change: The 'ecosystem approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's waterfront; title: From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government's role in the waterfront development; title: Cleaning up on the waterfront: Development of contaminated sites; title: Who's in charge? Jurisdictional gridlock and the genesis of waterfront Toronto; title: Public-private sector alliances in sustainable waterfront revitalization: Policy, planning, and design in the West Don Lands; title: Socio-ecological change in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries: The Lower Don River.