"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"
The failed dream of Montreal’s Habitat ‘67.
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The Culprits by Robert Hough Random House Canada (2007), 303 pp. Strange hands…[more]
Bravo! The Special Arctic Issue (November) is a richly nuanced and varied entrée into northern life and issues.…[more]
Want to know how a city used to work? Talk to the dead…[more]
Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada by Susan Scott Broadview (2007), 210…[more]
The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City by Elizabeth Currid Princeton UP (2007), 258 pp.…[more]
Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual by Clive Doucet New Society (2007), 251 pp. [more]
Our author meets Bob, the former carnival ride operator from Vancouver…[more]
A Walrus Canada Noir tale: Horror... in Halifax!…[more]
Is Toronto being taken over by hucksters,
fauxhemians, and the “knowledge economy”?…[more]
A Walrus Canada noir tale: Egregiousness... in Edmonton!…[more]
Optimism, slowness, and why comic books still pay better than contemporary art. …[more]
As the debate over “the reasonable accommodation of
minority groups” indicates, diversity in Canada is troubled thing…[more]
Can the urban spaces handle legions of retiring boomers?…[more]
A British architect, oil barons, an urban vision, and creeping liberalism: what is the future for Cowtown?…[more]
Why following the urge to buy big might not make you happy…[more]
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