OP-ED: What Does Toronto Remember?
Beneath Toronto’s roads and buildings lies another city, shaped by memory, relationships, routines, and care
By Lisa DitschunLisa Ditschun is an artist, urbanist, educator, and PhD candidate at Trent University whose ongoing research-creation project, Cities for Seven Generations, examines relationships to place, memory, and urban futures. Most maps of Toronto tell us how to get somewhere. They focus on roads, transit lines, bike routes, neighbourhoods, and boundaries. Few maps ask what places matter to us, how memories become attached to those places, or what stories remain long after we leave them behind. My... Read more
