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Emerald City; Toronto Visited
Book by Bentley, Mays John
- GenresNonfiction
355 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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January 14, 2024
Let this book be your physical and spiritual guide to the city. Let it inspire you to journey to the corners of Toronto unbeknownst, let it inform your thoughts upon reaching said destination, and let it encourage you to repeat this process over and over again.
Emrald City is both a simple cure to any commuter dreading the inevitable transfers and delays of the TTC, as well as the urban bible helping one make sense of the past and future of this complex, ever-changing place we call home.
Couldn't recommend this enough.
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Civic convictions, including the anti-development ones for which Sewell has been so eloquent and principled a spokesman, are formed in the crucible of maturity, urban experience, bad knocks, and revulsion against the damage the selfish and powerful can wreak on the city fabric. But if grown-up experience should lead a man to opinions more measured than those of his impulsive adolescence, he can never afford to forget the music and magazines, the soda shops and back seats, and places like Golden Mile Plaza in which he awoke to sexuality, his soul and adult body and its longings, and discovered the civic stage on which will and desire would be tested against reality. Much of life is spent overcoming the mistakes we made in such cultural environments, and learning from the successes. So here's to his former worship, for reminding us to treasure the sites of our openings to the world even after we've decided to write out our political agenda much of what we learned there.
John Bentley Mays, on Scarborough and its suburbia, p. 134.
Emrald City is both a simple cure to any commuter dreading the inevitable transfers and delays of the TTC, as well as the urban bible helping one make sense of the past and future of this complex, ever-changing place we call home.
Couldn't recommend this enough.
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Civic convictions, including the anti-development ones for which Sewell has been so eloquent and principled a spokesman, are formed in the crucible of maturity, urban experience, bad knocks, and revulsion against the damage the selfish and powerful can wreak on the city fabric. But if grown-up experience should lead a man to opinions more measured than those of his impulsive adolescence, he can never afford to forget the music and magazines, the soda shops and back seats, and places like Golden Mile Plaza in which he awoke to sexuality, his soul and adult body and its longings, and discovered the civic stage on which will and desire would be tested against reality. Much of life is spent overcoming the mistakes we made in such cultural environments, and learning from the successes. So here's to his former worship, for reminding us to treasure the sites of our openings to the world even after we've decided to write out our political agenda much of what we learned there.
John Bentley Mays, on Scarborough and its suburbia, p. 134.
October 27, 2008
Like a walk through Toronto's most diverse neighbourhoods.
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