{"id":1562,"date":"2008-10-14T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T21:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/10\/14\/toronto-tuesday-shenzhen-babylon-and-detroit\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:52:45","slug":"toronto-tuesday-shenzhen-babylon-and-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/14\/toronto-tuesday-shenzhen-babylon-and-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tuesday: Shenzhen, Babylon and Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/10\/ttpicoct14.jpg\" alt=\"ttpicoct14.jpg\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/\">Spacing Toronto<\/a>. We hope it will fuel constructive dialogue on the urban issues faced by both cities.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/10\/08\/babylon-myth-and-truth-the-prototype-of-the-big-bad-city\/\">Babylon: Myth and Truth<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dylan Reid provides a history of conceptions of cities as decadent and corrupt, stemming from the myth of Babylon. His post was inspired by his spring visit to Berlin, where he saw an exhibit entitled &#8220;Babylon: Myth and Truth&#8221;\u00a0at the Pergamon Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/10\/13\/high-and-lonely-in-detroit\/\">High and Lonely in Detroit<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While attending the Creative Cities Summit, Shawn Micallef got the chance to stay at the 73-story Renaissance Center. This building is the tallest hotel in North America, and Shawn admired it from afar during his childhood in Windsor, Ontario. Here Shawn gives us his impressions of Detroit\u2019s architecture and the character of the city\u2019s streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/2008\/10\/13\/shenzhen-chinas-instant-city\/\">China\u2019s instant city<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sean Marshall gives us an account of his impressions of Shenzhen, a Chinese city of over 8,000,000 whose construction started a mere 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. 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His post was<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/14\/toronto-tuesday-shenzhen-babylon-and-detroit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Toronto Tuesday: Shenzhen, Babylon and Detroit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7834],"tags":[691,205,287,125,376,536,3155,3154,284,1842,1188,32,152,1412],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-berlin","tag-detroit","tag-dylan-reid","tag-montreal","tag-north-america","tag-ontario","tag-pergamon-museum","tag-renaissance-center","tag-sean-marshall","tag-shawn-micallef","tag-shenzhen","tag-spacing-toronto","tag-toronto","tag-windsor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Toronto Tuesday: Shenzhen, Babylon and Detroit - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/10\/14\/toronto-tuesday-shenzhen-babylon-and-detroit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toronto Tuesday: Shenzhen, Babylon and Detroit - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. 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