{"id":2425,"date":"2014-10-04T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2014-10-06T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:06:47","slug":"2425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2425","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E56: All In with Dylan Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/REID-headshot-new_0192.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2430 size-full\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/REID-headshot-new_0192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/REID-headshot-new_0192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/REID-headshot-new_0192-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Near Toronto&#8217;s Danforth, Colin Marshall talks\u00a0to Dylan Reid, senior editor at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\"><em>Spacing<\/em><\/a> magazine, former\u00a0co-chair of the Toronto Pedestrian Committee, and co-founder of Walk Toronto. They discuss whether the term &#8220;pedestrianism&#8221; has become as unappealing as\u00a0the term &#8220;classical music&#8221;; the nature of the Danforth and its Greek roots; spatial ways to think about one&#8217;s walks; the quintessentially Torontonian things he&#8217;s noticed only while walking; the controversial practice of &#8220;fa\u00e7adism&#8221; and what it offers the city; the slow process by which Toronto offers up its joys, none of which seem apparent across the rest of Canada; what someone eager to grasp Toronto will find when they open\u00a0<em>Spacing<\/em>; how to photoblog in a &#8220;not obviously beautiful&#8221; city; how he got to know Toronto by taking group walks by night, seeing such sights as a still-active slaughterhouse; how the city represents, in some form or another, every current of the modern conversation about developed-world urbanism; how\u00a0<em>Spacing\u00a0<\/em>got its start in the argument around an anti-postering bylaw; walking as the fabric that connects\u00a0all modes of transportation; what Toronto&#8217;s lately ever-more-robust downtown population has meant of walking; what makes him ask &#8220;Why is this here?&#8221; and who he asks for the answer; the fifty objects that symbolize Toronto; the city&#8217;s relative lack of empty spaces and &#8220;dead zones&#8221;; what walk to take that can help you most quickly understand Toronto; and why one might\u00a0visit Toronto Island.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E56_Dylan_Reid.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near Toronto&#8217;s Danforth, Colin Marshall talks\u00a0to Dylan Reid, senior editor at\u00a0Spacing magazine, former\u00a0co-chair of the Toronto Pedestrian Committee, and co-founder of Walk Toronto. 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