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Today’s National Post Toronto Magazine<\/a> has a series of 5 articles on evolving neighbourhoods in the city, including the Oakwood<\/a> neighbourhood north of St. Clair, Queen West<\/a>, the Gaybourhood<\/a>, and the coffee-liberation of Leslieville & South Riverdale (not online) . There is also an excerpt of the Artburbia?<\/a> essay I contributed to the latest edition of uTOpia<\/a> (note, seems only 1\/3 of the excerpt made it online — but all these articles look better in the printed magazine anyway, which itself has impressed us over the past few months).<\/p>\n

In Artburbia? I argue the next logical place for Toronto’s arts scene to settle is in the suburbs, where it could find space and<\/strong> mix in with the neat stuff already happening there — maybe creating new forms of art and art practice (a “Toronto Suburban” perhaps). Two years ago I wrote an article in Eye called Scarborough Fair<\/a> about the Bendale neighbourhood, one of the places I propose has all the makings of an art-friendly area.<\/p>\n

With Mike Smith’s piece<\/a> in this week’s Now and John Lorinc’s piece<\/a> on stripmalls in the first uTOpia, all this attention on Toronto’s suburbs is great. To use election language, they are the places to watch in this city (been watching the Liberal convention all day, it’s the only way I know how to talk right now). It’s where the great big city experiment that is Toronto takes place most quietly-brilliantly and sometimes most awkwardly. At Spacing, we’re excited about the Intersections issue we’re putting together right now, where a number of our writers explore various crossroads in Toronto, many of which are located in these unsung neighbourhoods. More to come, in the years to come, for sure…<\/p>\n

(Photo of Lawrence Avenue, looking west towards Kennedy by Brent Foster via National Post)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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