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, 19101931
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