Changing Urban Waterfronts
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Drawing together researchers from social scientific, humanities and scientific disciplines, this project investigates Toronto's waterfront during the past hundred years. The project uses the ideas of social nature and political ecology to study the waterfront, a special place where land and water meet, as an interactive space in which the social and the natural are constantly remaking one another. That is, urban waterfronts are always both social and natural and need to be studied as such. The overarching question our research addresses is: How have various discourses and practices combined to produce and regulate Toronto's waterfront as a socio-economic and ecological space? We approach this question by observing that during the last few decades, policy makers, planners and developers have looked to waterfronts in North American and European cities as sites for massive urban revitalization projects that contribute to expanding the roles of metropolitan regions and the formation of new urban hierarchies in a globalized economy.
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Developing sustainability: sustainability policy and gentrification on Toronto's waterfront
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-08)A “three pillar” concept of sustainability guides the current publicly funded planning and redevelopment process on Toronto’s waterfront. While this concept serves as a guiding framework, sustainability is largely defined ... -
Urban Expansion and Industrial Nature: A Political Ecology of Toronto's Port Industrial District
(Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008-09)This article analyses political and economic practices involved with the production of an industrial form of socio-nature - the Port Industrial District - during the early decades of the twentieth century in Toronto, Canada. ... -
Changing Urban Waterfronts' Seminar Series Report - Revised
(09/06/2008)This Seminar Series Report summarizes research presentations made by members of York University's Changing Urban Waterfronts' (CUW) research project in the spring of 2008. The Series focused on the central theme of the ... -
Planning and the Development of Sustainability on the Central Waterfront
(03/03/2008)This presentation by Dr. Susannha Bunce examines the current redevelopment plans for the central waterfront area of Toronto’s waterfront, which spans a geographic territory of ten kilometres from Sunnyside Beach at the ... -
Don Vale House, c. 1870
(Landmarks of Canada, 1870) -
Bloor Viaduct under construction, Don Section, east approach, 1915
(Location: Toronto Public Library, 02/12/1915) -
Bloor Viaduct under construction, Don Section, Piers B & C, looking west, 1915
(Location: Toronto Public Library, 15/10/1915) -
Bloor Viaduct under construction, Don Section, Pier E, 1915
(Location: Toronto Public Library, 21/09/1915) -
House of Refuge, c. 1860
(Location: Toronto Public Library, 1860) -
Detail from "City of Toronto, 1893"
(Location: Toronto Public Library, 1893) -
Taylor Brothers Paper Mill on the Don River, c. 1860
(Location: Toronto Public Library, 1860) -
Suicide in Don Valley, 1950
(Location: City of Toronto Archives, 14/01/1950) -
Walking on Water: The Politics of Land Creation
(03/03/2008)This presentation looks at how a particular form of socio-nature, the Port Industrial District, was produced through intertwined human and non-human processes and how this new land-form supported wealth accumulation in ... -
Castle Frank, 1796
(Location: Archives of Ontario, 1796) -
John Scadding's cabin on Don River, autumn, c. 1793
(Location: Archives of Ontario, 1793) -
Site of Castle Frank, on steep promontory overlooking Don Valley, 1796.
(Location: Archives of Ontario, 1796-07-20) -
Playter's Bridge near York, ca. 1796
(Location: Archives of Ontario, 06-Jun-179) -
First weir on Don River on the Line of the CNR to Muskoka, before 1910
(Location: Archives of Ontario, 1910) -
Don Valley bridge, before 1910
(1910)
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