Toronto’s Changing Waterfront: Society and Nature in Urban Transformations

2008 Seminar Series

TORONTO'S CHANGING INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONT

Monday February 4, 12-2 pm

University of Toronto, Sidney Smith Hall 1078

100 St. George Street

Gunter Gad (UofT):

Manufacturing on the Waterfront in a City-wide Context

Michael Moir (York):

Shipbuilding and Toronto’s Waterfront Plan of 1912

PLANNING AND POLITICS ON THE WATERFRONT

Monday March 3, 12-2 pm

York University, York Lanes 305

4700 Keele Street

Gene Desfor (York):

Walking on Water: The Politics of Land Creation

Susannah Bunce (York):

Planning and the Development of Sustainability on the Central Waterfront

SOCIAL-NATURAL CONTEXTS OF WATERFRONT CHANGE

Monday April 7, 4-6 pm

Reception 6-7 pm

Toronto Archives, 255 Spadina Road

Dave Andrews/Gail Fraser (York):

Double-Crested Cormorant Management at Tommy Thompson Park

Jennifer Bonnell (OISE):

Tracing the Environmental and Social History of the Don River

Sponsored by:

City Institute at York University

Cities Centre, University of Toronto

Changing Urban Waterfronts Research Project

For more information contact:

Changing Urban Waterfronts Research Project

Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

wfronts@yorku.ca  

416-736-2100 Ext.44022