Stroll

By (author): Shawn Micallef

Illustrated by: Marlena Zuber

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.

Shawn Micallef has been examining Toronto’s streetscapes for a decade. His psychogeographic reportages, some of which have been featured in EYE WEEKLY and Spacing 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.

Stroll 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.

Stroll features thirty-two walks, a flâneur manifesto, a foreword by architecture critic John Bentley Mays and dozens of hand-drawn maps by Marlena Zuber.

‘Shawn Micallef looks at the city in a way we all should more often – he sees it as a living book thatis alive with stories just waiting to be told to the attentive observer. In Stroll, he gives us an introduction to just how interesting and surprisingly dramatic those stories are, and how exciting our city is when we hear them.’

– David Crombie, former mayor of Toronto

‘A smart and intimate guide to the city that makes you feel like an insider from start to finish.’

– Douglas Coupland

Stroll is co-published with EYE WEEKLY.

AUTHOR

Shawn Micallef

Shawn Micallef is the author of Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and the co?-editor of Spacing magazine. He teaches at the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art and Design and was a 2011-?12 Journalism Fellow at Massey College. He writes about cities, culture, architecture, art and politics.


AUTHOR

Marlena Zuber

Marlena Zuber is a freelance illustrator and artist. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design and her illustrations have appeared in various publications including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, BUST Magazine and Print Magazine.


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Dimensions:

312 Pages
8.29in * 5.15in * 0.84in
0.86lb

Published:

May 15, 2010

Publisher:

Coach House Books

ISBN:

9781552452264

Book Subjects:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban

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Language:

eng

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