THE VISION
The past generation has seen a phenomenal intensification of built form
in Toronto mirroring the vast European rebuilding required by western forces
of 20th century mass desolation and destruction. The renewed impetus in
world wide migrationist patterns sustained even further development.
Through
all this trauma, intolerance for injustice, yearning for individual respect,
and the rise of planetary consciousness have found a welcome consolidation
in the Canadian nation/state and particularly the city/state of Toronto.
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"Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you,
Sculpture and monuments, and anything inscribed anywhere are tallied in
you,
The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is
in you this hour,
and myths and tales the same.
If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
The most renown'd poems would be ashes. Orations and plays would be vacuums.
All architecture is what you do when you look upon it.
[Did you think it was in the white or gray stone?
Or the lines of the arches and cornices?]"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892
Calamus from A Song for Occupations, Section 4