{"id":93,"date":"2005-08-05T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-08-09T00:46:33","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T04:46:33","slug":"a-flaneur-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2005\/08\/05\/a-flaneur-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"A fl\u00c3\u00a2neur manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=blank href=\"http:\/\/eye.net\/eye\/issue\/issue_08.04.05\/city\/flaneur.html\">Shawn Micallef<\/a> reveals in Eye this week the key to Toronto&#8217;s hidden beauty through walking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re told, over and over, that Toronto is not Paris, New York, London or Tokyo. We&#8217;re trained to be underwhelmed. Will Alsop told The Globe and Mail earlier this year that when he first came to Toronto he found it &#8220;unbelievably ugly.&#8221; He&#8217;s sort of right. Toronto seems to exist without design or reason. 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