A vision that makes room for a blue-collar future

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A vision that makes room for a blue-collar future

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2008 / February 22

So far, the rollout of Waterfront Toronto's $17-billion renovation of Lake Ontario's urban shoreline has been an interesting adventure of the mind and spirit. The public corporation's plans are very ambitious. And if not exactly thrilling, they are, by and large, credible expressions of the best contemporary thinking about the reclamation of brownfields. There appears to be agreement among planners, for example, about the kinds of commercial spaces and market-rate housing that should be provided in this vast undertaking. Waterfront Toronto president John Campbell told me not long ago that he hoped Toronto's overhauled docklands would become home bases for "the intelligent technology community - e-health, e-learning, e-commerce." That strikes me as an effective, appropriate scenario for a city that's on the verge (for better or worse) of turning into a home for information-industry proletarians.

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