Psycho Geography

The zoo is a zoo

Last week one of the Toronto Zoo’s older gorillas, Samantha, had a stroke and was euthanized at the age of 37. She was one of the original animals present at the zoo’s 1974 opening. The news of her death — and watching friends and folks on the various social networks I follow post remembrances — reminded me of the... (1)

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A place to grow

BY Shawn Micallef

Ontario Place needs a near-complete rethink. We should bring back the park, make it free and turn it into a great Toronto public space. Build housing in and around it, so it’s a 24-hour neighbourhood...

Toronto: walking wounded

BY Shawn Micallef

Cities are unique and free machines, but when you mess around with their sense of basic liberty, the collective civic brain is short-circuited. Though the decision to hold the G20 in downtown... (8)

Battle in The Beach

BY Shawn Micallef

Over the last three weeks, a battle has been waged in the Beaches over the demolition of a house at 204 Beech Avenue. It’s a compelling story at the eye of a perfect and unfortunate storm of... (8)

From one bike rider to another: put on a helmet

In Toronto, if you are a cyclist, you’re political. So start acting like a diplomat out there on the road. (18)

Stroll: Shawn Micallef’s flâneur manifesto, revisited

In 2004, EYE WEEKLY's Shawn Micallef kicked off his Stroll column with a manifesto. Over the years his column has changed its name (to Psychogeography) but not its purpose — he wanders the city keeping his eyes on the details. This week, EYE WEEKLY and Coach... (1)

Human towers

Our collective imagination tends to see us as the “city of neighbourhoods” which means, inevitably, houses on a grid of streets anchored by low-rise retail strips. Yet in between many of these well-known neighbourhoods are clusters of towers — vertical...

Jane says: go for a walk

Exploring Toronto on your own is fine and good and often the preferred way of seeing the city. On occasion, though, it’s nice to be led around the city by somebody else. The best-led walks are intimate affairs: being taken around a neighbourhood by somebody... (1)

Let’s talk about the weather

Out in the wilderness, spring comes slowly and gently: the buds and bulbs take their time appearing and sprouting up. But here in the city, spring hits fast and hard. The first warm day can, in mere hours, radically transform Toronto. Sidewalks will flood...

Cleaning up the underbelly

The Gardiner Expressway: eternal plague on Toronto’s waterfront; killer of the civic soul; slayer of our beautiful dreams. The Gardiner is our most guilty piece of infrastructure, culpable for so much we think is wrong in this city. All of this is... (2)

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