Tag Archives: Urban
Walk # 13
“For me, walking has become less physical transit than mental transportation. It is engaging. I have become, I fear, a difficult walking companion, liable to slow down and point at […]
Walk # 12
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into […]
Walk # 6 – Over The Mountain
“This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.” ― Bridget […]
Walk # 5 –
“Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking […]
Walk # 4 – Miron
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you’re in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the […]
Walk # 3 – The Road To Miron
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when […]
View of Verdun
Taken from a window on the fifth floor at City Hall.
Forget it, Neath, it’s Turcot…
Been having a kind of film noir week so the other day I decided to return to Turcot Yards for the first time in years. It started raining when I […]
Urban Autumn
29 Abandoned Music Halls, Ballrooms, Theatres and Movie Palaces
Photo: Detroit Urbex Story
Robert Longo In Toronto
Part of the Contact Photography Festival. While I like the McCord shows along McGill College, I would love to see some large scale work like this in different places around […]
Urban
Great page with lots of music and video clips on the theme Urban including this picture of Marilyn Monroe reading the last page of Ulysses. And tons more at Polis
How To Live In A City
Old video that seems pretty dated and even corny, but there are some really good points made about open spaces in cities. Almost right out of the Jane Jacob’s canon…
Time To Get Harper Out!
Heaven help this country if Harper and the “conservatives” could ever get a majority. Their time is over, just ask George W. Bush. The Americans have opted for change and […]
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