{"id":139,"date":"2017-10-12T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/?p=139"},"modified":"2017-10-12T21:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T04:06:32","slug":"toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/2017\/10\/12\/toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d summarize Toronto as ‘homely but homie’. Although the streets are usually packed with people, the city still feels barren and undecorated. Pragmatic to a fault.<\/p>\n

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But for the same reason, Toronto is not pretentious. The lack of green space makes the moss-covered buildings stand out. The lack of bike lanes make the brave cyclist outstanding. The abundance of concrete boosts the aesthetic of the brick.<\/p>\n

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Although disappointed at the lacklustre complete street design in Toronto, I was fascinated by how well road users share the space and organize themselves. A form of ‘disorganized chaos’ as Jane Jacobs had described of big cities: \u201cIntricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.”<\/p>\n

The modern aspects keep the city interesting. It’s a joy to photograph the city’s architecture.<\/p>\n

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So although I would say Toronto is quite ugly, it is unpretentiously so, and you get what you see in this city of 2.7 million.<\/p>\n

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I’d summarize Toronto as ‘homely but homie’. Although the streets are usually packed with people, the city still feels barren and undecorated. Pragmatic to a fault. But for the same reason, Toronto is not pretentious. The lack of green space makes the moss-covered buildings stand out. The lack of bike lanes make the brave cyclist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amydo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}