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What If The Star Did a Special Issue and Everyone Talked About It?

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

The Toronto blogosphere is abuzz with the Star’s “What If” special issue that ran this Sunday. The special issue was a number of think pieces on how the city could be drastically improved.
Christopher Hume wants to see the Hearn turned into Toronto’s Tate, something that Reading Toronto latches on to.
Christopher Hutsul (or Christopher the Younger, as we like to call him) argues for ways the city can nurture its creative communities, including decriminalizing graffiti. Local “thinker” Timothy Comeau critiques this suggestion and many others on Good Reads.
Spacing Wire notices that their contributors had a big hand to play in the issue and Torontoist notices that Chris Hardwicke is getting sooo much mileage out of his Velo-City idea that it’s just insane.
Finally the Mayor gets critiqued by the always vocal community over at Urban Toronto for his introductory essay.
Personally Torontoist would rather see big fluffy buildings…. kinda like these that and more bike lanes.

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  • rek

    It seems like the thing standing in the way of improving this city is the body officially responsible for improving this city.

  • danbo

    and the thing standing in the way of the body that is officially responsible for improving this city is the body officially responsible for granting powers to the body that is officially responsible for improving this city! tra la la.

  • http://www.newmindspace.com kevin bracken

    i loved these articles so much i bought two papers. this is the right thinking; i really, truly believe if we talk about it enough and go through the motions, something good will actually happen.

  • danbo

    it’s a lot like what i read in uTOpia. visions are what what fuel our world. exciting but difficult, and always worth the battle.

  • rek

    uTOPia is in my reading pile, still a couple of titles down though.