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The term "border" always has negative connotations for me. It has an underlying meaning of separation. This example is a stretch of Leslie Street, one of the main Toronto arteries. It is almost three kilometers long and I am calling it "the faceless street". This panorama is stitched from 14 photos taken the same distance from the fences. It creates the illusion that you are encircled by them, and I think emphasizes the impression of separation and detachment of people from each other and prevents us from being complete human beings. It is a part of an active search and continuous observation (psychogeography) that I am conducting with the goal to expose significant successful and not so successful sides of the modern city.
All over Toronto, and for that matter, in most North American cities, you can find examples like this one. It is a terrible consequence of the zoning system still in use instead of the proper urbanistic principles of city planning. It is really hard to fix problems like this one, but I think that awareness is very important in order to avoid this and similar situations. Sociability is probably the most important attribute of urban life and if we want to keep cities alive, every effort to make them joyful and meaningful and contribute to the connectivity and identity of the neighborhoods, is essential in the development of community, culture and democracy.
Granice - prevod na srpski
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