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on site review 19: street spring/summer 2008 Alana Young Efrosini Charalambous, Anna Papachristoforou Rita Brooks Eric Deis Joseph Heathcott Ivan Hernandez Quintela Paul Whelan Jennifer McVeigh Antoin Doyle Chris Roach Lia Maston Drew Sinclair Matthew Neville Zahra Ebrahim Nathalie Hereux Lola Sheppard, Mason White Ella Chmielewska Sarah Zollinger Wayne Guy Gordon Stratford Danielle Wiley Havva Alkan Bala, Hassina Nafa Alfredo Landaeta Robert Billard Tim Atherton
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Andrew King, Angela Silver
above: street party in Montréal, 2007 right: roundabout in Dubai, 2004
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Rome, from a fast-moving camera
proximities: telling comparisons between Mexico City and Toronto working in the interstices of Athens’ urban fabric taking care of our streets, slowly and with great concentration scorn Roosevelt Avenue traverses Queens, dropping off passengers on its way exhausted city people waiting, waiting for the bus, for shade, for hours curious Toronto: three jostling doorways fit the space of one modern entrance oh Calgary, in ruins and empty lots. Artists flee the wreckers yet again thin lines of bollards drawing out the city public streets turn private: turning them public again in the San Francisco night shading green acres of surface parking in the city of angels intensely local guerilla zoning on a lot-by-lot basis thinking of mat-building in Halifax: a site is ready and waiting ad hoc cities that come and go with the seasons, the weather and the time of day supremely logical street furnishings that promote civic love slips; slipping across the street the neonisation of Warsaw in the modern soviet era — beautiful, beautiful the permanence of the impermanent northern light and land of snow: a park in Yellowknife’s pocket three streets, three authenticities Porta Portuense: powerful impermanence Anatolian streets made private: just build a gate, add a room, make a cul-de-sac thinking ahead to future streets ignoring reality in Nunavut poor old Prince Albert back pages
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Brian Dyson
HOK Canada, Toronto WASA [Waterloo Architecture Student Association] and SWAG [Society of Waterloo Architecture Graduates] Manasc Isaac Architects, Edmonton
street, street smarts, street life: onsite 19
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