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The Capital of North York
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
Inside City Hall, a building that had its political power sucked out of it when the megacity was created, there are happy photo montages of…
Inside City Hall, a building that had its political power sucked out of it when the megacity was created, there are happy photo montages of…
Where Golf Course and 401 meet in high drama
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
If on foot during the frozen winter, wander on to the golf course grounds. The entrance is just before the Highway 401 overpasses and there…
If on foot during the frozen winter, wander on to the golf course grounds. The entrance is just before the Highway 401 overpasses and there…
Tags: highway 401, overpasses, read, story, traffic, yonge street
A little fern-filled Vancouver in Toronto
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
Yonge north of Lawrence continues the default low-rise retail until arriving at the end of the old City of Toronto, where Yonge Street dips…
Yonge north of Lawrence continues the default low-rise retail until arriving at the end of the old City of Toronto, where Yonge Street dips…
North Toronto Super Canopy
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
Towards Lawrence, Yonge defaults low again, another pleasant strip of pleasant stores. The area is perhaps a little more diverse than…
Towards Lawrence, Yonge defaults low again, another pleasant strip of pleasant stores. The area is perhaps a little more diverse than…
The clean air of Yonge and Eglinton
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
If Woody Allen set movies in Toronto they would be shot at Yonge and Eglinton. It’s vertical, the sidewalks are full of people wearing…
If Woody Allen set movies in Toronto they would be shot at Yonge and Eglinton. It’s vertical, the sidewalks are full of people wearing…
Tags: bars, clean air, coal smoke, eglinton avenue, read, russell smith, shops, story, woody allen, yonge street
The Art of Yonge and Davisville
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
At Davisville, the TTC’s headquarters building (the McBrien Building) was built after the Yonge subway line opened in 1954 but it is now…
At Davisville, the TTC’s headquarters building (the McBrien Building) was built after the Yonge subway line opened in 1954 but it is now…
Yonge and St. Clair — Centre of the Universe, briefly
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
When standing at Yonge and St. Clair, I find it striking that the intersection is so unsung. Most mid-sized towns around Canada dream of a…
When standing at Yonge and St. Clair, I find it striking that the intersection is so unsung. Most mid-sized towns around Canada dream of a…
North Toronto Station is no longer in North Toronto (not even midtown)
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
The refurbished North Toronto Train Station, built in 1916 at Summerhill by the firm Darling and Pearson (they also did the Dominion Bank…
The refurbished North Toronto Train Station, built in 1916 at Summerhill by the firm Darling and Pearson (they also did the Dominion Bank…
The defection of Mikhail Barishnikov
Every step you walk on Yonge street has a memory, and a story to tell. The next time you walk past the Hummingbird Centre at Front and Yonge... think of this: On June 29, 1974 the worldfamous Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov ducked out the…
The Brain of Toronto
The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010
North of Bloor, Yonge tends not to elicit such high emotional and cultural impact, as it passes through some of Toronto's more genteel…
North of Bloor, Yonge tends not to elicit such high emotional and cultural impact, as it passes through some of Toronto's more genteel…