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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 ...
Waterfront News 1(2)
(2007-04)
A newsletter of Toronto's Changing Waterfront research project. Current activities of the researchers are provided as is a brief summary of the project.
Introduction to "Political ecologies of urban waterfront transformations"
(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 ...
Toronto's Recent Waterfront Struggles: Much Ado About Nothing?
(2006-01)
The article analyses a particular case of jurisdictional conflict in planning and developing Toronto's waterfront at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation and the ...
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 ...
Tracing the Social and Environmental History of the Don River
(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 ...
Waterfront News 1(1)
(Changing Urban Waterfronts, 2007-01)
A newsletter of the Changing Urban Waterfronts research project