Gene Desfor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1641326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gene Desfor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gene |
| FAMILY NAME | Desfor |
| SIGNATURE | DESFOR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront
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 Fea…
America's Waterfront Revival
Urban Expansion and Industrial Nature
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. Informed by historical documents from that period, as well as using contemporary concepts from urban theory, we analyse the creation of a major land mass and southern extension of Toronto within a political ecology framework.…
Introduction to “Political ecologies of urban waterfront transformations”
From Surf to Turf
In their analysis of growth policies and planning in Toronto in From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?, Gene Desfor, Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer, and Gerda Wekerle argue that the widely accepted characterization of the visions in conflict — one urban and reform, the other suburban and developer-dominated — is oversimplified. Tracing the changing discourses of governance, they show that the development of Toronto today as a competitive c…
Making local environmental policy in Los Angeles
Restructuring the Toronto Harbour Commission
A political economy of the waterfrontier
Introduction to “Political ecologies of urban waterfront transformations”
From Surf to Turf
In their analysis of growth policies and planning in Toronto in From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?, Gene Desfor, Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer, and Gerda Wekerle argue that the widely accepted characterization of the visions in conflict — one urban and reform, the other suburban and developer-dominated — is oversimplified. Tracing the changing discourses of governance, they show that the development of Toronto today as a competitive c…
A political economy of the waterfrontier
Urban Expansion and Industrial Nature
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. Informed by historical documents from that period, as well as using contemporary concepts from urban theory, we analyse the creation of a major land mass and southern extension of Toronto within a political ecology framework.…
Restructuring the Toronto Harbour Commission
Making local environmental policy in Los Angeles
A political economy of the waterfrontier
Restructuring the Toronto Harbour Commission
Making local environmental policy in Los Angeles
From Surf to Turf
In their analysis of growth policies and planning in Toronto in From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?, Gene Desfor, Roger Keil, Stefan Kipfer, and Gerda Wekerle argue that the widely accepted characterization of the visions in conflict — one urban and reform, the other suburban and developer-dominated — is oversimplified. Tracing the changing discourses of governance, they show that the development of Toronto today as a competitive c…
Introduction to “Political ecologies of urban waterfront transformations”
Urban Expansion and Industrial Nature
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. Informed by historical documents from that period, as well as using contemporary concepts from urban theory, we analyse the creation of a major land mass and southern extension of Toronto within a political ecology framework.…
Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront
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 Fea…
America's Waterfront Revival
Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Law (4 works)