SteelCity Living: Hamilton, Stelco and the Post-Industrial City

169 Pages·2015·20.71 MB·English

STEELCITY LIVING:
Hamilton, Stelco and the Post-industrial City
by
Desirae Cronsberry
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Afairs in partial fulfllment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Architecture
in
Azrieli School of Architecture
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
© 2015
Desirae Cronsberry
STEEL
CITY
LIVING
Hamilton, Stelco and
the Post-Industrial City
Abstract
Brownfeld sites in Canada play an essential role in the
future development of post-industrial cities. Fundamentally
unproductive, these spaces are of no beneft to the city’s
recovery and therefore must be adapted for a new use.
U.S. Steel Canada (Stelco) has defned Hamilton’s economy and
cultural identity as a blue collar city for more than a century.
Now under bankruptcy protection and seeking potential buyers,
concerns of the city’s capacity to exist as an industrial based
economy have increased. The growing inventory of brownfelds
and the demand for affordable housing in Hamilton are
infuential factors in its season of heightened urban renewal.
Steelcity Living seeks to set a precedent for development and affordable
housing enriched by the remediation and preservation of Stelco’s
industrial ruins and the signifcance of Hamilton’s cultural past.
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Canadian
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The
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Hammer Town
The
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Stelco
The
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Steelcity Living
LANDSCAPE
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