January/February 2008:
Cities Special
"Standing in that blizzard at 2:30 in the morning, wearing a baby-doll nightgown, holding a pink Princess telephone while my Volvo was pulled out of the snow, it occurred to me that this was the logical end of something."
-Don Gillmor in "The Events Leading Up to Sir Norman Foster"
January/February 2008:
Cities Special
Exclusive Photos: Kenya on the Brink
by Arno Kopecky
An exclusive photo gallery and essay traces the post-election violence in Kenya
Dark Cities
Whyte Avenue Blue
by Greg Hollingshead
A Walrus Canada noir tale: Egregiousness... in Edmonton!
More Stories in this issue
Walrus Reads
Book Review: All Our Sisters - Stories of Homelesss Women in Canada
by Ariel Brewster
Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada by Susan Scott Broadview (2007), 210
Field Notes
The Windy Necropolis
by Dennis Duffy
Want to know how a city used to work? Talk to the dead
Urban Planning
Street Smarts
by Ariel Brewster, Jan Dutkiewicz,
and Claire Hastings
Half of the world’s population now lives in cities. How do they make it work?
Detail
Revealing Urban Colours
by Todd Falkowsky
Capturing the essence of a city. » View Photo Gallery «
Letters
January/February 2008
by The Walrus Readers
Bravo! The Special Arctic Issue (November) is a richly nuanced and varied entrée into northern life and issues.
Cities
Toronto: Justice Denied
by Mark Kingwell
Is Toronto being taken over by hucksters,
fauxhemians, and the “knowledge economy”?
Sightings
Puzzling Ethnicity
by Ken Alexander
As the debate over “the reasonable accommodation of
minority groups” indicates, diversity in Canada is troubled thing
Cities
Calgary: The Events Leading Up To Sir Norman Foster
by Don Gillmor
A British architect, oil barons, an urban vision, and creeping liberalism: what is the future for Cowtown?
Homes
Me Want More Square Footage!
by Charles Montgomery
Why following the urge to buy big might not make you happy
Online Exclusive
A Brief Interview with Julie Doucet
by Paul Isaacs
Optimism, slowness, and why comic books still pay better than contemporary art.
Walrus Reads
Book Review: Urban Meltdown -
Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual
by Jan Dutkiewicz
Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual
by Clive Doucet
New Society (2007), 251 pp.
Online Exclusive
Online Exclusive: My Dinner With Bob
by Peter Valing
Our author meets Bob, the former carnival ride operator from Vancouver
Urban Planning
The Aging City
by John Lorinc
Can the urban spaces handle legions of retiring boomers?
Walrus Reads
Book Review: The Culprits
by Danielle Groen
The Culprits by Robert Hough Random House Canada (2007), 303 pp. Strange hands
