What is this place we are ever rushing towards? Or, a gravel pit and the History of Velocity
Title
What is this place we are ever rushing towards? Or, a gravel pit and the History of Velocity
Author
Nelson, Chad
Supervising Faculty
Wadland, John; Whillans, Tom
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies
Reference Number
TPB-599
Date
1994
Location of Document
U-Links Office and online
Area
Carnarvon and Haliburton County
Subject
Development conflict and transportation development
Abstract
This paper explores the issues around a development conflict in Haliburton County that was to come before the Ontario Municipal Board in 1994. The hearing concerned the rights of an aggregate extraction and paving company to remove some aggregate from a natural area near Carnarvon for use in road building outside the area and the opposition of some local residents to this plan. The subject is examined against the backdrop of a discussion of historical transportation development in Haliburton and technology and speed as cultural symbols of progress viewed from bioregional theory. The emphasis is on how the technologies of speed and advanced transportation have acted to extract culture from its natural, human and ecological contexts.
Publisher
Trent University
Files
Reference
Nelson, Chad, What is this place we are ever rushing towards? Or, a gravel pit and the History of Velocity, Trent University, 1994