In 2004 a group of citizens in Hamilton started an online magazine called Raise The Hammer “dedicated to providing a variety of views and approaches to the goal of making Hamilton a great city.” The current lead article is celebrating 14 new projects in the city centre.
Hamilton’s future does not lie in paving over farmland on the outskirts of town. Our future starts at King and James and spreads out from there. Only with a healthy heart can the rest of the body function efficiently and properly.
Hamilton is and was a good city — when I spent a few days downtown in 1998 (for the first time) I was surprised at how “big-city” and urban it felt. I was expecting a slightly bigger version of Windsor, where the suburbs (or at least a suburban sentiment) seems to start right downtown. And the city has such a great natural location, with it’s very own mountain (though there is talk on Reading Toronto to build our own mountain). It’s strange how cities get reputations like Hamilton did — where one part (that melted rusted steel-making area seen from the QEW Bridge) eclipses the rest of the good stuff.
Raise the Hammer has an RSS feed, so it will be easy to keep track of what’s going on there.
