Urban explorations
Subtitle: environmental histories of the Toronto region
By: edited by L. Anders Sandberg [and others] ; maps by Rajiv Rawat
Contributors: American Society for Environmental History. Conference
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hamilton, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781926633664
Subjects: Ecology; Natural history; Regional planning; Urban Sociology; History; Social life and customs; Sociologie urbaine; Manners and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Environmental histories of the Toronto region / L. Anders Sandberg, Stephen Bocking, Colin Coates, and Ken Cruikshank; title: Exploring downtown landscapes; title: 2. Filled with nature: exploring the environmental history of downtown Toronto / Jay Young; title: 3. The St. Lawrence neighbourhood: what it is and why / Richard White; title: Exploring hidden landscapes; title: 4. The indigenous environmental history of Toronto, 'the meeting place' / Jon Johnson; title: 5. Queen's Park and other stories: Toronto's queer ecologies / Peter Hobbs and Cate Sandilands; title: 6. On stockades and bridges: from York University to the Jane and Finch neighbourhood / L. Anders Sandberg; title: Exploring animal and food landscapes; title: 7. Living and working with domestic animals in nineteenth-century Toronto / Sean Kheraj; title: 8. A terroir of food institutions in Toronto / Joel Fridman, Lauren Baker, and Bronwyn Whyte; title: Exploring service landscapes; title: 9. Planning nature and the city: Toronto's Lower Don River and port lands / Gene Desfor and Jennifer Bonnell; title: 10. Toronto's urban organic machines: the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant and the Ashbridge's Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant / Michael McMahon; title: Exploring manufactured landscapes; title: 11. Predators, prey and the dynamics of change at the Leslie Street Spit / Jennifer Foster and Gail Fraser; title: 12. Managing and remediating Nature in a Great Lakes 'area of concern': Hamilton Harbour / Ken Cruikshank and Nancy B. Bouchier; title: 13. Creating a cataract: the transnational manipulation of Niagara Falls to the 1950s / Daniel Macfarlane; title: Exploring aesthetic landscapes; title: 14. The islands / H.V. Nelles; title: 15. Cultivating culture in Toronto's Allan Gardens, 1860-1914 / Rebecca Dirnfeld; title: 16. Conservation and development: from Rouge Park to the Oak Ridges Moraine / L. Anders Sandberg and Lisa Wallace; title: 17. Toronto, Old Ontario, and the Near North: landscapes of the Group of Seven / Claire Campbell.