"The great critic Northrop Frye, an ornament of the city [of Toronto] for half a century, once called Toronto a good place to mind your business. Thirty or forty years ago, the most obvious quality of Toronto was reticence, which many mistook for a virtue. Toronto was a city of silence, a private city, where all the best meals were eaten at home and no one noticed the absence of street life and public spaces." Robert Fulford,
Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto, Toronto: McFarlane Walter & Ross, 1995 at page 1.
I think Fulford's thesis is that the city has changed since Northrop Frye's description. Has it? Discuss.
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| Spire Condos. Adelaide St. E. and Church St. Toronto. December 24, 2015 at 8:30 AM. f/8,1/250 s at ISO 100. I slightly underexposed it just get more blue in the sky, which is evidence in the uncrossed version of this photo. |
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| 60 Richmond St. E., Toronto. December 24, 2015 at 8:33 AM. f/13, 1/100 s at ISO 100. |
