What is the 'Toronto look'? Toronto architecture is rich with superlative facts - 'tallest' this, 'first retractable' that - but, taken as a whole, the city's built environment is underappreciated. Here, glass skyscrapers rise beside Victorian homes, and Brutalist apartment buildings often mark the edge of leafy ravines, creating a city of contrasts whose architectural look can only be defined by telling the story of how it came together and how it works, today, as an imperfect machine. Eye Weekly columnist Shawn Micallef has been examining Toronto's architecture for many years, weaving historical information on its buildings and their architects with expansive ambulatory narratives about the neighbourhoods in which these buildings exist. Stroll collects Micallef's expanded columns alongside a number of new, unpublished essays; together, these psychogeographic reportages situate Toronto's buildings in living, breathing detail, and tell us more about the people who use them, how it feels to be exploring them in the middle of the night and the unintended ways in which they're evolving. Writer Rebecca Solnit said that 'cities move at the speed of walking.' Stroll celebrates Toronto's details - some subtle, others grand - at that velocity and, in so doing, helps us understand what impact its many buildings, from the CN Tower to Pearson Airport's Terminal One and New City Hall, have on those who live there. Features dozens of hand-drawn maps by artist Marlena Zuber, a foreword by architecture critic John Bentley Mays, a flâneur manifesto and a four-panel fold-out colour map.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.3/541
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Includes index Collection of author's expanded Eye weekly columns Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 9781770562608 9781552452264
- LCCN
- F1059.5.T683
- LCCN Item number
- M53 2010eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (310 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00229725 (OCoLC)799730566 (CaOOCEL)443783
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover Page 1
- Title Page 5
- Copyright 6
- Table of Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Flâneur Manifesto 12
- The Middle 19
- Yonge Street 20
- The Toronto Islands 47
- Harbourfront 52
- The CN Tower 61
- Nathan Phillips Square and the path System 66
- University Avenue 77
- Yorkville 84
- Metro Central YMCA 91
- Westish 97
- Dundas Street 98
- Pearson Airport 116
- Markland Wood 120
- Alderwood and Lake Shore Boulevard 124
- The CNE and the Western Waterfront 133
- Bathurst Street 145
- Dupont Street 161
- Northish 167
- Spadina 168
- St. Clair Avenue 181
- Eglinton Avenue and the Borough of York 190
- Yorkdale Mall 196
- The Sheppard Line 201
- The Finch Hydro Corridor 216
- Eastest 221
- Rouge Park 222
- Kingston-Galloway and Guildwood Village 226
- Scarborough City Centre and Bendale 232
- Dorset Park 241
- Thorncli¤e, Flemingdon Park and Don Mills 255
- Eastish 265
- The Danforth and Crescent Town 266
- Downtown East Side Zigzag 272
- Castle Frank and the Brick Works 297
- Gerrard Street 301
- The Beach 309
- The Port Lands and Leslie Spit 312
