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Spacing’s Shawn Micallef talks suburbs, cupcake urbanism and divided people at TEDxToronto

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The TEDxToronto affiliate in Toronto has grown to be one of the bigger events associated with the TED conference in California. Spacing’s senior editor Shawn Micallef gave a seven minute talk on how we think about our cities at the Sony Centre this past month. Take a look.

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  1. Wow, this is… ridiculous.  Having been to Toronto suburbs and downtown, the Toronto downtown has way more variety and non-chain stores than the suburbs.  Ottawa is also clearly less big-boxy downtown.

    I really don’t understand why he would possibly think it is otherwise.

    Anecdotes are not data.  One strip mall shows nothing.