Running the City
What the Toronto Waterfront Marathon can teach us about public space
By Alex KharabianDawn doesn’t so much break over Toronto on marathon morning as creep in behind the sound of trucks, radios, and zip-ties. Streets that usually hum with commuters now sit in temporary silence, lined with orange pylons and metal fencing. City crews move quickly, transforming intersections into start corrals and traffic lights into timing markers. At Union Station, clusters of runners spill from the trains into the pale morning, adjusting armbands and watches as they make their way toward the... Read more
