Toronto Flaneur
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Slipping through the spectacle
People in Toronto like to drag their parties out onto the streets. It gives the rest of us a chance to sneak in and crash them, or participate, or just...
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Enjoy getting lost in your own city
I like to walk around the city. Since I moved here four years ago, I have wanted to find out what lies beyond each street or park. Not knowing about the...
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Four-wheel drifting
I went for a drive two Sundays ago. My intention was to go for a walk, but it was pouring, and though I often like to walk in the rain, I was cold and I...
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Adventures in North York
Living downtown, it's easy to forget just how suburban much of Toronto is. We may not like suburbia, but it's probably the most common Canadian...
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Underneath the layers
Bloor and Bathurst might be our greatest big city corner — not because of skyscrapers or starchitecture but because of Honest Ed's turning it...
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The gorge-ous Rouge Valley
The opening lines of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" read "Whose woods these are I think I know. / His house is...
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Following Sackville’s ghosts
Sackville Street begins at a chain-link dead end, and it’s downhill from there. All of Cabbagetown’s northern edge is pressed up against St...
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Rambling the length of Queen Street
In anticipation of the Walk 21 conference on all things pedestrian, Spacing organized the Great Queen Street Psychogeographic Walk. We began at the Queen...
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Where the lines blur Brown
I once heard Browns Line described as the ugliest street in Toronto, but I didn't bother to confirm this until recently. Browns Line is rather famous...
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The bungalow horizon of Willowdale
If you look at a map of Toronto, you'll see two bands that run across the top. One is the fat and wide 401 that we're all familiar with. The other...
By Matthew Blackett