In Flux in the City, Nathaniel and Wesley are on a journey to learn about equitable cities and all the wonderful folks who make our cities worthwhile to live in. They interview leaders, movers, shakers, artists and academics to ask hard-hitting (and enjoyable) questions about the City of Toronto.
Earlier in 2022, Nathaniel and Wes caught up with Daniel Rotsztain, also known as The Urban Geographer to speak about his "urbanist origin story," and converse about activism, art, geography and The UrbanGeog's great big love for the City of Toronto.
We start the episode with the tongue-in-cheek song "Toronto the Good" from 1966 by the Canadian folk band Brothers-in-Law juxtaposing the positive energy we all give the City of Toronto in this episode.
Daniel shares how he got known as the Urban Geographer and shares his love of storytelling. We talk about falling in love with the messy urbanism of the city, Toronto's identity, the CN Tower, cormorants and our "hearts of the city" - otherwise known as places of belonging that we find in this weird and complex metropolis! Join us in listening!
If you are interested in the wonderful Daniel and his awesome artwork and projects make sure to check out the links below to follow links to things we mentioned in this episode alongside his website:
https://artstartsto.com/cartography-17/
https://theurbangeographer.ca/About
If today's episode sounds a bit different, we used a brand new AI tool to master our audio so thanks be to the new AI gods for helping grassroots podcasts like our own sound like a million dollars!
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