Browsing Changing Urban Waterfronts by Issue Date

Playter's Bridge near York, ca. 1796

Simcoe, Elizabeth (Location: Archives of Ontario, 06-Jun-179)

Bloor Viaduct under construction, Don Section, east approach, 1915

Unknown (Location: Toronto Public Library, 02/12/1915)

Walking on Water: The Politics of Land Creation

Desfor, Gene (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 ...

Planning and the Development of Sustainability on the Central Waterfront

Bunce, Susannah (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 ...

Shipbuilding and the Waterfront Plan of 1912

Moir, Michael (04/02/2008)

Introduction to "Political ecologies of urban waterfront transformations"

Bunce, Susannah; Desfor, Gene (Elsevier, 06/04/2007)

This is an introductory chapter for a series of papers which focus on the political ecology of waterfronts in selected cities in Europe, North America and the Caribbean. The papers incorporate emphases on the myriad ...

Tracing the Social and Environmental History of the Don River

Bonnell, Jennifer (07/04/2008)

This presentation provides an overview of Jennifer Bonnell's dissertation research on the Don River in Toronto, highlighting among other themes the legacy of "imagined futures" for the river valley, and the competing ...

Changing Urban Waterfronts' Seminar Series Report - Revised

Bunce, Susannah (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 ...