The Imagining Toronto Project

This website offers news and commentary about the Imagining Toronto project and the Imagining Toronto book (Mansfield Press, Fall 2010).

Imagining Toronto book cover

Visit the Imagining Toronto Library for an extensive and regularly updated list of literary works engaging with Toronto.

The Imagining Toronto course syllabus, lecture notes and related materials are accessible by clicking here.

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Lectures

Listed below are lecture slides, handouts and links associated with each week of the 2009-2010 Imagining Toronto course. Lecture slides will be posted before class each week.

Week Date Materials
1 January 6 Handout: GEOG 4280 course syllabus
2 January 13 Lecture slides: The City as Text
Handout: First Reading Response Assignment Guidelines
Handout: Research Paper Guidelines
3 January 20 Lecture slides: Toronto’s Literary Cartographies
4 January 27 Lecture slides: The Myth of the Multicultural City
5 February 3 Lecture slides: Class Fictions
6 February 10 Lecture slides: Possibilities of Dwelling
February 17 Reading week: no slides, no notes
7 February 24 What We All Long for: Dionne Brand’s Toronto [no slides]
Handout: Second Reading Response Assignment Guidelines
8 March 3 Lecture slides: Desire Lines
9 March 10 [class and presentations rescheduled to 31 March]
Handout: Third Reading Response Assignment Guidelines
10 March 17 Lecture slides: City Limits
11 March 24 Lecture slides: Fantastic Toronto
12 March 31 Lecture slides: The Wisdom of Age
April 5