Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront

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

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