On 5/13/05, Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice, Frank, it fully conveys the sense of a totally urban > place. I find it appealing. >
Thanks, Joe. The place is called Dundas Square, and it's part of a recent multi-million dollar effort to "revitalize" downtown by putting a great big ugly concrete useless public space where it wasn't needed. It was supposed to be a place where people congregate and socialize; well, it is, but sadly, it turns out that the "wrong kind" of people are congregating, and the socializing seems to often include gun and knife-play at 3 am. They no sooner finished the place about two years ago when they boarded up the only buildings on the square, a washroom and information booth behind the pixel board (you can see the wall right next the girl on the right). It looks like hell, and there are no signs that it's going to change soon. About the only activity in the square on weekends is cheesey booths selling too-expensive bangles, souvenirs and t-shirts, all of which one can get at 1/2 the price if one walks three blocks west into Chinatown. So, yes, it's urban. Glad you find it appealing, Joe, and thanks for your comments. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
