Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities.
Dylan Reid provides a history of conceptions of cities as decadent and corrupt, stemming from the myth of Babylon. His post was inspired by his spring visit to Berlin, where he saw an exhibit entitled “Babylon: Myth and Truth” at the Pergamon Museum.
While attending the Creative Cities Summit, Shawn Micallef got the chance to stay at the 73-story Renaissance Center. This building is the tallest hotel in North America, and Shawn admired it from afar during his childhood in Windsor, Ontario. Here Shawn gives us his impressions of Detroit’s architecture and the character of the city’s streets.
Sean Marshall gives us an account of his impressions of Shenzhen, a Chinese city of over 8,000,000 whose construction started a mere 30 years ago.