Introduction

PART ONE: FORGING THE INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT

1 Planning for Change: Harbour Commissions, Civil Engineers, and Large-Scale Manipulation of Nature

MICHAEL MOIR

2 Establishing the Toronto Harbour Commission and Its 1912 Waterfront Development Plan

GENE DESFOR, LUCIAN VESALON, AND JENNEFER LAIDLEY

3 From Liability to Profitabilit: How Disease, Fear, and Medical Science Cleaned Up the Marshes of Ashbridge's Bay

PAUL S.B. JACKSON

4 From Feast to Famine: Shipbuilding and the 1912 Waterfront Development Plan

MICHAEL MOIR

5 A Social History of a Changing Environment: The Don River Valley, 1910?1931

JENNIFER BONNELL

6 Boundaries and Connectivity: The Lower Don River and Ashbridge's Bay

TENLEY CONWAY

7 Networks of Power: Toronto's Waterfront Energy Systems from 1840 to 1970

SCOTT PRUDHAM, GUNTER GAD, AND RICHARD ANDERSON

PART TWO: SHAPING THE POST-INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT

8 Creating an Environment for Change: The 'Ecosystem Approach' and the Olympics on Toronto's Waterfront

JENNEFER LAIDLEY

9 From Harbour Commission to Port Authority: Institutionalizing the Federal Government's Role in Waterfront Development

CHRISTOPHER SANDERSON AND PIERRE FILION

10 Cleaning Up on the Waterfront: Development of Contaminated Sites

HON Q. LU AND GENE DESFOR

11 Who's in Charge?: Jurisdictional Gridlock and the Genesis of Waterfront Toronto

GABRIEL EIDELMAN

12 Public-Private Sector Alliances in Sustainable Waterfront Revitalization: Policy, Planning, and Design in the West Don Lands

SUSANNAH BUNCE

13 Socio-ecological Change in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Lower Don River

GENE DESFOR AND JENNIFER BONNELL

References

Contributors

Index