(Ebook) Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto by Shawn Micallef ISBN 9781552452264, 1552452263

(Ebook) Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto by Shawn Micallef ISBN 9781552452264, 1552452263

<div><b>Winner: 2011 Toronto Heritage Award of Merit</b><br><br>What is the ‘Toronto look’? 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.<br><br>Shawn Micallef has been examining Toronto’s streetscapes for a decade. His psychogeographic reportages, some of which have been featured in <i>EYE WEEKLY</i> and <i>Spacing</i> magazine, situate Toronto's buildings and streets in living, breathing detail, and tell us about the people who use them; the ways, intended or otherwise, that they are being used; and how they are evolving.<br><br><i>Stroll</i> celebrates Toronto's details – some subtle, others grand – at the speed of walking and, in so doing, helps us to better get to know its many neighbourhoods, taking us from well-known spots like the CN Tower and Pearson Airport to the overlooked corners of Scarborough and all the way to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in Lake Ontario.<br><br><i>Stroll</i> features thirty-two walks, a <i>flâneur</i> manifesto, a foreword by architecture critic John Bentley Mays, dozens of hand-drawn maps by Marlena Zuber and a full-colour fold-out orientation map of Toronto.<br></div>