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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

04: Spring-Summer 2005

  • 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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  • Queen and Spadina, 2015

    What would happen if people simply disappeared from the intersection of a large metropolis, never to return? How would this depopulation change a place...

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  • Ghosts on the wall

    All buildings are haunted. Toronto has some pretty stubborn ghosts living in its warehouses and refurbished lofts and empty brick monoliths — their...

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  • Rivers below

    Thousands of years old and buried alive, their ghosts are awakened with the advent of spring. Foundations creak and floorboards rot as the undead bleed...

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  • The Port Lands, 2043

    Excerpted from the Toronto section of “The Green Traveller Guide”, 2043 edition. "…No trip to Toronto would be complete without a...

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  • Steeles and Yonge, 2020

    The following short story by Jim Munroe takes place in the year 2020 near the intersection of Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue. "What's that...

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  • The city hall(s) we could’ve had

    The first half of the 20th century saw Toronto's civic leaders contemplate a number of different city hall and civic square proposals, but it...

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  • Walking, or sitting, in the clouds

    Sitting on top of an underground parking lot just off the corner of Yonge and Temperance Streets, the Cloud Garden Parkette is a refuge, oasis, and an...

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  • Erratic boulders

    In September 2004, local artist Maura Doyle had a nine-tonne rock moved from its resting place in the Kawartha Lakes to the Toronto Sculpture Garden at...

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  • Gardening for ads

    In the craziest billboard jungle in Canada, advertisers will go to extreme lengths to get noticed. A lucrative business has been growing strong for the...

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