Unbuilt Hamilton

Mark Osbaldeston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2016
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3299-5 (ISBN)

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With 150 archival plans, photographs, and illustrations, Mark Osbaldeston explores 200 years of significant but unrealized building, planning, and transit schemes in Hamilton. Learn about the escarpment amphitheatre, the Gage Avenue tunnel, the King’s Forest Zoo, and the downtown planetarium, none of which ever came to fruition.

Finalist for a 2017 Hamilton Literary Award, the Kerry Schooley Award

Unbuilt Hamilton presents the Ambitious City at its most ambitious, exploring the origins and fates of unrealized building, planning, and transportation proposals from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first.

Marvel at the sweeping vista down Hamilton’s own version of the Champs-Élysées as you enjoy a concert in the escarpment amphitheatre. Drive up the Gage Avenue tunnel, or ride down the Ottawa Street incline railway. Take in the sites at the King’s Forest Zoo, see the stars in the planetarium, or catch a game at Commonwealth Stadium before returning to your island home in Bay Shore Village.

Featuring more than 150 illustrations, plans, and photographs, Unbuilt Hamilton gives life to the Hamilton that might have been.

A Hamilton native, Mark Osbaldeston has written and spoken extensively on architectural and planning history. His first book, Unbuilt Toronto, was the basis for an exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Awards and the Speaker’s Book Award. It also received a Heritage Toronto Award of Merit, as did its sequel, Unbuilt Toronto 2.

Introduction: The Ambitious City
Master Plans
1. George Hamilton Plan
2. Romulus/Westdale
3. Noulan Cauchon City Plan
4. Waterfront Proposals
5. E.G. Faludi City Plan
6. Civic Square
Civic, Church, and Corporate
7. Hamilton Waterworks/Wentworth County Jail
8. Gore Bank
9. Christ’s Church Cathedral/Christ the King Chapel/St. John the Baptist Church
10. St. Patrick’s Church/James Street Baptist Church
11. Hamilton General Hospital/Juravinski Hospital
12. City Halls
13. Connaught Tower
Arts, Learning, and Leisure
14. Hamilton Club
15. Central Library
16. McMaster University Buildings
17. City Hall Art
18. McMaster University Medical Centre
19. Mohawk College Tower
20. Sesquicentennial Sculpture
Transportation
21. Tye-Cauchon Railway Report
22. Ottawa Street Incline/Mountain Tunnels and Highways
23. Train Stations
24. Northwest Entrance
25. East-West Expressway/North-End Perimeter Road
26. Elevated Transit
Parks and Recreation
27. War Memorial and Civic Auditoriums
28. Sam Lawrence Park Waterfall
29. King’s Forest Zoo
30. Arenas and Stadiums
31. Gore Park Revitalization
Epilogue: Hamilton in 2003
Acknowledgements
Sources
Image Credits
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	The City That Might Have Been
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 159 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 229 mm
Gewicht	767 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4597-3299-5 / 1459732995
ISBN-13	978-1-4597-3299-5 / 9781459732995
Zustand	Neuware