?The annual weekend event that attracts thousands of locals to discover Toronto buildings is over for this year, but the excellent book it led to remains available all year.? -- Toronto Star
?John Sewell [is] arguably Toronto?s most effective radical since William Lyon Mackenzie?. Doors Open Toronto ? has a lot to say about Toronto even to those who couldn?t care less about it, never mind to those who live in it?. [It] has integrity. Sewell is an honest witness to the context and importance of the buildings he chooses to focus on?. It is precisely this degree of historical sensitivity that is so lacking in the current talk concerning the course of Toronto?s future development. Doors Open Toronto?gives eloquent voice to the ideals [of a participatory civil democracy.]? -- Douglas Bell, The Globe and Mail
?The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand.? -- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
?This first-rate book?is sensitive, balanced, even wry?. With thumbnail sketches that seamlessly merge each building?s historic, literary, aesthetic, and, yes, political aspects, Sewell enriches the cityscape.? -- Quill & Quire -- Review
Review
“The annual weekend event that attracts thousands of locals to discover Toronto buildings is over for this year, but the excellent book it led to remains available all year.” -- Toronto Star
“John Sewell [is] arguably Toronto’s most effective radical since William Lyon Mackenzie…. Doors Open Toronto … has a lot to say about Toronto even to those who couldn’t care less about it, never mind to those who live in it…. [It] has integrity. Sewell is an honest witness to the context and importance of the buildings he chooses to focus on…. It is precisely this degree of historical sensitivity that is so lacking in the current talk concerning the course of Toronto’s future development. Doors Open Toronto…gives eloquent voice to the ideals [of a participatory civil democracy.]” -- Douglas Bell, The Globe and Mail
“The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand.” -- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
“This first-rate book…is sensitive, balanced, even wry…. With thumbnail sketches that seamlessly merge each building’s historic, literary, aesthetic, and, yes, political aspects, Sewell enriches the cityscape.” -- Quill & Quire
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