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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 ... -
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 ... -
The ecosystem approach and the global imperative on Toronto’s Central Waterfront
(Elsevier, 23/02/2007)As one of the ‘last great waterfronts’ to embrace what has become a near-ubiquitous post-fordist development model, the formerly industrial lands of Toronto’s Central Waterfront are currently being reshaped to provide the ... -
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 ... -
Shipbuilding and the Waterfront Plan of 1912
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Port City Relations: Global Spaces of Urban Waterfront Development
(23/11/2007)Urban waterfronts have become key sites where global restructuring processes and local interests are engaged in complex struggles that are influencing the future of cities. The author discusses three issues related to these ... -
List of Materials at the Changing Urban Waterfronts' Office
(2008)This is a bibliographic listing of donated reference materials currently located in the Changing Urban Waterfronts' research office at York University. Health, Nursing, and Environmental Studies (HNES) Building, Room 240 ... -
Keys to the City: Waterfront Development in Toronto
(2006-09)The article begins with a narrative of David Miller’s 2003 mayoral election victory not only because the waterfront has become, if not materially then certainly symbolically, central to his term of office, but also because ... -
Waterfront News 1(1)
(Changing Urban Waterfronts, 2007-01)A newsletter of the Changing Urban Waterfronts research project -
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 ... -
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.