Tag: neighborhood

Milton Friesen reviews My Vertical Neighbourhood, Linda’s McGibbon’s xperience as a newcomer to a high-rise condo in Toronto. She actively explores what it means to be a neighbour in the third dimension, and challenges us to acknowledge that mutuality matters.

We don’t have to escape to a new and better location with more perfect neighbors. We need to lovingly attend to the ones we have.

Where do the porchers from across the Pond go to escape the entrapment of a modern, concrete, urban sprawl?

Regardless of what one’s opinion might be regarding the HOF Festival, one thing that virtually no local wants is more of it. So, naturally that is exactly what the city plans on doing.

It is a cloudless July day in Connecticut—the kind of day that keeps people rooted in this place despite its long winters and high...

What are the compensations on the downhill side of life?

Fortunately America still gives birth to her Framers and they come with every generation.

As the half-savage neighbor in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

I tend to think that slippery sidewalks are a sign of a broader pattern, in which people are less prepared to take responsibility for the inconvenience of ‘gray areas.’