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They’ve started tearing down Regent Park. For weeks now I’ve been walking through the middle of it, on my way from Cabbagetown down to the Dundas Street car along what was once and what will again be Sackville Street, looking at the empty glassless buildings with the skyscrapers rising in the background. It’s a DetroitishContinue readinghttps://spacing.ca/toronto/images/Regent3.jpg