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Same as it ever was? A dozen years for reflection and conclusion

Hostile Homewood: on Toronto’s Victoria Day ’96 murder spree and articulating erasure

Figure 6. Wolseley Street, dusk, about four blocks north of where Brenda was murdered, is representative of the area’s historical built form. Defensible spacing (the line between public and private space) is clear, but the street, with no sitting activity or pedestrians, or has low proprietor surveillance. [Idlewild, 12 July 2008]

An act of not-so-safe streets: regulating femininity away from public space

Hostile Homewood: on Toronto’s Victoria Day ’96 murder spree and articulating erasure

Figure 5. Location of The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry’s Gender Identity Clinic, later the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Gender Identity Clinic, on College Street at Huron. [©© Mateen Mahboubi]

Predation and the culture of institutionalization: impacts of perception and placement

Hostile Homewood: on Toronto’s Victoria Day ’96 murder spree and articulating erasure

Figure 4. Toronto Star, page A7, Monday, 27 May 1996.

Sensationalizing disempowerment: kick ’em when because they’re down

Hostile Homewood: on Toronto’s Victoria Day ’96 murder spree and articulating erasure

Figure 3. Adjacent the laneway of 61 Homewood Avenue. This was where Deanna Wilkinson was murdered by Marcello Palma shortly after midnight on 21 May 1996. [Idlewild]

Introducing “Hostile Homewood”: truly dark and stormy

On Toronto’s Victoria Day ’96 murder spree and articulating erasure

366H093 cover

Analysis of the Wallace family and their Cabbagetown lane housing projects

A Toronto laneway housing history

366H092 cover

Data collection for selected laneways of Briggs, Clara, Dean, Taylor, and Wallace-Midland in the St. David’s Ward Area

A Toronto laneway housing history

Yonge Street Mall on Queen, ca. 1971 [City of Toronto Archives s1465_fl0312_it0055]

When Queen’s Park smothered Toronto’s Yonge

Looking back on the Yonge Street Mall, 1971–1974

Fixed-rail transit, Avenue Rd. at Bloor St., facing north, 14 September 1925
(source: City of Toronto Archives, series 71, s0071_it4039).

Annex-University

An application of planning, activism and gentrified preservation

Nova heart of gold

The genesis and aftermath of Juneau’s policy on Canadian content

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