num_pages: 310
description: Winner: 2011 Toronto Heritage Award of MeritWhat 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 Torontos 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 flneur 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.
language: English
title: Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto
publisher: Coach House Books