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Toronto: Linking the Lake - Solutions for an Urban Infrastructural Disconnect
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De Wet, Andres MG
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6087-3557
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491557866968756
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2017, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Community Planning.
Abstract
Limited-access road and rail infrastructure in inner-cities connects the whole at the expense of the affected parts. The 1950’s and 60’s ushered in an era of urban renewal and freeway building that saw cities connected to far-flung suburbs, compromising their neighborhoods, residents and urban livability. Railway construction predated this and, as public-transit, has not attracted the planners’ ire to the same intensity as have freeways; however, it remains a grey ribbon of localized disconnect in inner-cities. Only recently has rail been seen as retrofitable to the local urban need. Toronto has triple wicked urban problems: wide swathes of rail, an elevated urban freeway, and unsightly and choked at-grade arterials. All this, in the heart of a burgeoning city. A city that allows for design dreams, in an environment of perpetual fiscal prudence. A city whose primary urban activity zones straddle this arterial road and rail drosscape. A city seeking spatial unity and a reconnection to its gleaming and burgeoning lakefront.
Committee
Conrad Kickert, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Leah Hollstein, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
187 p.
Subject Headings
Urban Planning
Keywords
Toronto
;
rail capping
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ageing infrastructure
;
urban design
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urban freeway
;
economic development
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De Wet, A. M. (2017).
Toronto: Linking the Lake - Solutions for an Urban Infrastructural Disconnect
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491557866968756
APA Style (7th edition)
De Wet, Andres.
Toronto: Linking the Lake - Solutions for an Urban Infrastructural Disconnect.
2017. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491557866968756.
MLA Style (8th edition)
De Wet, Andres. "Toronto: Linking the Lake - Solutions for an Urban Infrastructural Disconnect." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491557866968756
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Toronto: Linking the Lake - Solutions for an Urban Infrastructural Disconnect by Andres MG De Wet is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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