{"id":76,"date":"2010-01-05T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/magazine\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2010-04-09T23:25:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T04:25:47","slug":"issue-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/magazine\/issue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 2 \/\/\/ Everyone is a Pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who was the first person to drive on the moon? No one celebrates this dubious achievement, but everyone remembers the images zapped back to Earth of a human footprint on the lunar surface. Oddly enough, the moon may be the closest place to home where a footstep is so revered. We\u2019ve been walking upright for a few million years, but over the last century we\u2019ve sat back and watched our species do everything it can to abandon this unique ability. Our culture minimizes travelling by foot in every possible way \u2014 cities are designed to accommodate cars, kids count down to their sixteenth birthdays so they can drive, and people look at us funny when we choose to walk home from work. Even our language takes a jab at walking: \u201cpedestrian\u201d is a synonym for something boring or common. But the very fact that walking is common is what makes it great. Spacing\u2019s second issue focuses on the many joys and obstacles \u2014 and the politics \u2014 of walking in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this issue <strong>Sheila Heti<\/strong> (<em>The Middle Stories<\/em> author) muses on     eye contact in the city; <strong>Jim Munroe <\/strong>(No Media Kings <a href=\"http:\/\/nomediakings.org\/\">indie-novelist<\/a>) gives us his take on the increasingly fashionable     urban sport of parkour; <strong>Ryan Bigge<\/strong> explores the evolution     of language used to describe our public spaces; <strong>Nicole Cohen<\/strong> examines     the female pedestrian experience; <strong>Carly Zwarenstein<\/strong> takes us through the history of the walking in Toronto; <strong>Shawn     Micallef <\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/murmurtoronto.com\/\">murmur<\/a> mastermind)     wanders Toronto aimlessly to uncover bits of the city&#8217;s history; Cartographer     <strong>Graeme Parry<\/strong> weaves us through an East End alley jaunt; and <em>Spacing<\/em> contributing editor <strong>Dylan Reid<\/strong> outlines what Toronto needs to be     a great pedestrian city.<\/p>\n<p><em>cover photo by Bouke Salverda; interior spread illustration by Peter Ash<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1969\" href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/magazine\/issue-2\/attachment\/02-walking-spread\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1969\" title=\"02-walking-spread\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/02-walking-spread.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/02-walking-spread.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/02-walking-spread-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was the first person to drive on the moon? No one celebrates this dubious achievement, but everyone remembers the images zapped back to Earth of a human footprint on the lunar surface. Oddly enough, the moon may be the closest place to home where a footstep is so revered. 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