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Urban explorations : environmental histories of the Toronto region
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- Creator
- edited by L. Anders Sandberg ... [and others] ; maps by Rajiv Rawat
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Hamilton, ON : L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- viii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781926633664, 1926633660
- OCLC
- ocn842092282
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 1. Environmental histories of the Toronto region / L. Anders Sandberg, Stephen Bocking, Colin Coates, and Ken Cruikshank -- Exploring downtown landscapes -- 2. Filled with nature: exploring the environmental history of downtown Toronto / Jay Young -- 3. The St. Lawrence neighbourhood: what it is and why / Richard White -- Exploring hidden landscapes -- 4. The indigenous environmental history of Toronto, 'the meeting place' / Jon Johnson -- 5. Queen's Park and other stories: Toronto's queer ecologies / Peter Hobbs and Cate Sandilands -- 6. On stockades and bridges: from York University to the Jane and Finch neighbourhood / L. Anders Sandberg -- Exploring animal and food landscapes -- 7. Living and working with domestic animals in nineteenth-century Toronto / Sean Kheraj -- 8. A terroir of food institutions in Toronto / Joel Fridman, Lauren Baker, and Bronwyn Whyte -- Exploring service landscapes -- 9. Planning nature and the city: Toronto's Lower Don River and port lands / Gene Desfor and Jennifer Bonnell -- 10. Toronto's urban organic machines: the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant and the Ashbridge's Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant / Michael McMahon -- Exploring manufactured landscapes -- 11. Predators, prey and the dynamics of change at the Leslie Street Spit / Jennifer Foster and Gail Fraser -- 12. Managing and remediating Nature in a Great Lakes 'area of concern': Hamilton Harbour / Ken Cruikshank and Nancy B. Bouchier -- 13. Creating a cataract: the transnational manipulation of Niagara Falls to the 1950s / Daniel Macfarlane -- Exploring aesthetic landscapes -- 14. The islands / H.V. Nelles -- 15. Cultivating culture in Toronto's Allan Gardens, 1860-1914 / Rebecca Dirnfeld -- 16. Conservation and development: from Rouge Park to the Oak Ridges Moraine / L. Anders Sandberg and Lisa Wallace -- 17. Toronto, Old Ontario, and the Near North: landscapes of the Group of Seven / Claire Campbell
Subjects
- Ecology -- Ontario -- Toronto Metropolitan Region.
- Natural history -- Ontario -- Toronto Metropolitan Area.
- Regional planning -- Ontario -- Toronto Metropolitan Area.
- Sociology, Urban -- Ontario -- Toronto.
- Sociology, Urban -- Ontario -- Toronto Metropolitan Area.
- Toronto (Ont.) -- History.
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Social life and customs.
- Toronto Metropolitan Area (Ont.) -- History.
- Hamilton (Ont.) -- History.
- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- History.