Posts Tagged ‘Jane Jacobs’
Margaret Atwood’s Backyard
While the world spent the week weeping over once-in-500-year floods, possible apocalypses, and the latest barbarisms of Donald Trump (in short it was a typical Book-of-Revelations end-of-August 7-Days-That-Were kind of week), Canada remained focused on author Margaret Atwood’s backyard. According to the nation’s journal of record, Toronto Life, “Margaret Atwood is really mad about some…
Read MoreAfter the Circus
The Paralympic games may be yet to come, but the Olympic circus has already packed up and left town. In its wake, Max Fawcett takes a look at the city it changed, and what those changes mean.
Read MoreJane Jacobs
Brian Fawcett posts an obituary for Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006
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