Walking on Water: The Politics of Land Creation

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03/03/2008

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Desfor, Gene

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This presentation looks at how a particular form of socio-nature, the Port Industrial District, was produced through intertwined human and non-human processes and how this new land-form supported wealth accumulation in Toronto during the early twentieth century.

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Port Industrial District, socio-nature, urban waterfronts, industrial nature, urban expansion

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Desfor, G. (2008). Walking on Water: The Politics of Land Creation. Changing Urban Waterfronts' Seminar Series. Presented at York University on March 3, 2008.