Toronto’s Port Lands: Climate Change and a Transition in the Nature/Culture Relationship
| dc.contributor.advisor | Taylor, Laura | |
| dc.contributor.author | Donnelly, Jennifer | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-14T20:06:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-14T20:06:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-08-31 | |
| dc.description.abstract | On Toronto’s east-central waterfront, the Port Lands project is transforming an area that used to be considered one of the most underused parts of the city. The project aims to protect the surrounding areas from the Don River floodplain by rerouting the river and renaturalizing the landscape that surrounds it. The Port Lands project is heavily shaped by the anticipated pressures that climate change will place on the cities’ infrastructure and ecological systems. Understanding the Port Lands within the framework of a historical trajectory of land use, from industry to vacancy, then vacancy to now a utopian vision of a ‘green’ future community illustrates how transformations in the ideologies of nature are being transcribed onto the cityscape. The main objective of this study is to investigate whether climate change is enacting transformations to the ways in which we see the nature/culture relationship. Through an analysis of the historical context, the policy contexts, and the larger dynamics at play in the Port Lands, this study shows how constructed ideas of nature and landscape are shifting to incorporate climate change strategies and accommodate urban natures. The Port Lands project, both as a physical change in the landscape as well as in its Planning Framework as a projection of an idealized future, exemplifies a transition in the ideology of nature which is being catalyzed by climate change. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Major Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/40036 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
| dc.title | Toronto’s Port Lands: Climate Change and a Transition in the Nature/Culture Relationship | en_US |
| dc.type | Major paper | en_US |