{"id":4009,"date":"2009-02-06T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/02\/06\/psychogeographic-boundaries-and-cozy-urbanism\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:36","slug":"psychogeographic-boundaries-and-cozy-urbanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/06\/psychogeographic-boundaries-and-cozy-urbanism\/","title":{"rendered":"(Psycho)Geographic boundaries and cozy urbanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.eyeweekly.topscms.com\/images\/53\/e8\/1b8e1d9d4d11a499eed3830aafaf.gif\" align=\"right\" height=\"300\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my current <em>Eye Weekly<\/em> Psychogeography column I wrote about the psychological boundaries we &#8212; Torontonians &#8212; impose on ourselves, limiting what we experience of the city. The illustration above is by Eye&#8217;s Bradley Reinhardt, inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/07\/72-the-world-as-seen-from-new-yorks-9th-avenue\/\">1976 New Yorker cover<\/a> that pokes fun at how the rest of the country percieved a Manhattanites view of of the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There are unseen barriers all over Toronto. We hear about them sometimes and they informally tell us where we can and can&#8217;t go. If a collective map of how Torontonians view their city could be visualized, it would be divided and walled up like Berlin during the Cold War, with vast dark and unknown patches. We often lock ourselves into pockets of the city, shrinking the size of our metropolis.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some of this is unintentional. We easily get into habits and routines; it helps us get things done. If our friends and favourite stores and, if we&#8217;re lucky, even our work are in the same area, we&#8217;ll naturally stay in that area. Living locally makes for smaller carbon footprints and more time for everything else. <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/city\/features\/article\/51368\">Read the rest here<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While there is an argument to be made for staying close to home because it&#8217;s convienent and perhaps more importantly, we tend to like where we live (perhaps a micro-version of Richard Florida&#8217;s latest book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/creativeclass.com\/whos_your_city\/\">Who&#8217;s your city<\/a><\/em> might be <em>Who&#8217;s your neighbourhood<\/em>) I think there&#8217;s great value in knowning the areas outside of our well-worn paths, as I suggest in the column. We may not want to live there, but we are all part of &#8220;Toronto,&#8221; so to understand what that is\u00a0 (and, in effect, who &#8220;we&#8221; are), you&#8217;ve got to know it&#8217;s geography. This way, the city truly becomes &#8220;your city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I also briefly discuss the massive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontoeruv.org\/\">Toronto eruv<\/a>, <em>a physical perimeter set up by Jewish communities that allows for a relaxation of Sabbath rules, letting folks go about most of their business inside those boundaries. An eruv is a metaphorical wall with many doorways, sometimes using existing fences, hydro wires or natural barriers like a river, other times requiring the installation of a new wire or nylon fishing line along the top of poles. <\/em>When I first heard about the eruv a few years ago I went looking for traces of it&#8217;s perimeter, but could not find any sign of it &#8212; but it&#8217;s there, and it&#8217;s checked each week to see if it&#8217;s Kosher (unbreached). I&#8217;d be interested to hear if any of our Orthodox readers (or otherwise) have any experience with the eruv. I was amazed at it&#8217;s size and, unlike other cites where eruv&#8217;s have been <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eruv#Controversies\">controversial<\/a>, Toronto&#8217;s seems to pass under the civic radar (perhaps evidence of Toronto&#8217;s mythic easygoing nature for this sort of thing).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3009\/2305853619_66da0b6e32.jpg?v=0\" height=\"376\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/city\/details\/article\/50620\">The other small piece<\/a> was about the Air Canada Centre, and how Toronto&#8217;s urban fabric is meeting the arena with the construction of Maple Leaf Square on the west side. We take this sort of thing for granted in Toronto, but so many sports and event facilities in other cities are surrounded by parking lots. The ACC is beginning to remind me of both Maple Leaf Gardens&#8217; urban location, and some of the UK Football stadiums I&#8217;ve seen, where large structures can fit right into the dense urban fabric. The western approach to the ACC is now quite impressive, a sort of massive glass portal to the arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my current Eye Weekly Psychogeography column I wrote about the psychological boundaries we &#8212; Torontonians &#8212; impose on ourselves, limiting what we experience of the city. 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