I think Toronto could benefit from the adage "its all about the journey and not the destination" or similarly from Ursula LeGuin “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end”"
Everywhere I go people are moving, going, each street, each corner is full of them, cars, bikes, walkers. I really don't know where they are all going, all the time.
Now this journey is, well, blank! Its meant to be passed through on a way TO somewhere. Instead of being somewhere itself. What I mean is that, there are interesting places in T.O. but the in between is ... pretty grim.
This is made worse by the lack of urban furniture, that is benches, lamp posts, flower planters, etc and the appallingly bad public squares. These squares are either paved without much seating, a few splodges of grass, or sunken in. Who ever thought a sunken public place was a good idea should be forced to live in a hole for a week.
Some of the buildings, well they could be interesting, but there is nothing to frame them, nothing to support them. They are just plunked down on an empty lot. Owen says I'm being too quick to judge BUT I have carried around my sketchbook and camera for several days now without finding anything beautiful. Not one sight has inspired me to sketch. So thats my task ... to find something beautiful.
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