{"id":1917,"date":"2007-05-24T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2007-05-24T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T15:27:49","slug":"blogrolling-to-dodgeville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/24\/blogrolling-to-dodgeville\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogrolling to Dodgeville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/valdodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/warden-tank-3713.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On his great wandering Toronto blog <a href=\"http:\/\/valdodge.com\/\">Dodgeville<\/a>, Val Dodge just posted a picture of what could be Christo&#8217;s latest project at the Eglinton and Warden water tower. In the  upcoming issue of Spacing (out in late June) we have an article on how water towers around Toronto are neighbourhood landmarks. I wonder how many people in Scarborough have suddenly taken notice of a piece of infrastructure that had become familiar and unremarkable background landscape.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/valdodge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/don-valley-wayfinding-3587.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also on Dodgeville are pictures of the <a href=\"http:\/\/valdodge.com\/2007\/05\/18\/wayfinding-in-the-don-valley\/\">new wayfinding signs<\/a> in the Don Valley that I first saw last week on an evening ride up to Sunnybrook. They look nice (though as Val points out, the North-South arrows are pointing in the wrong direction here). Maybe one day I&#8217;ll figure out what all the route numbers mean and where they go &#8212; up until now they simply afford the mildly safe feeling that you&#8217;re on somebody&#8217;s official route.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Further poking through Dodgeville reveals <a href=\"http:\/\/valdodge.com\/2007\/03\/11\/promise-versus-practice-canadian-tire\/\">this examination<\/a> of how the Canadian Tire\u00a0 at Main and Danforth behaved after they promised to make their new store store fit into the surrounding urban fabric. A cautionary tale as Leslieville gets ready for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/eye\/issue\/issue_05.17.07\/city\/cityhall.php\">possible arrival<\/a> of a &#8220;smart centre&#8221; big box development on Eastern that also has promised sensitive design.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his great wandering Toronto blog Dodgeville, Val Dodge just posted a picture of what could be Christo&#8217;s latest project at the Eglinton and Warden water tower. In the upcoming issue of Spacing (out in late June) we have an article on how water towers around Toronto are neighbourhood landmarks. 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