{"id":626,"date":"2006-03-16T20:07:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T00:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=626"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:51:01","slug":"ryerson-to-turn-around-and-face-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/03\/16\/ryerson-to-turn-around-and-face-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryerson to &#8216;turn around and face the city&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtarch.com\/mtacceexterior.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFrom the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ryerson University sits smack in the middle of downtown Toronto, with its back turned to the city. That&#8217;s about to change. With no obvious front door on Yonge or Dundas streets, key stretches of which remain down at heel, the university now aspires to embrace its neighbours and the city in a major renewal effort. Landlocked on 10.1 hectares (25 acres), the university is at the first stage of a plan, to be developed over the next 18 months, on how to grow beyond its current borders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read more of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20060316.RYERSON16\/TPStory\/TPNational\/:\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail today: Ryerson University sits smack in the middle of downtown Toronto, with its back turned to the city. That&#8217;s about to change. 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