[URBAN NOTE] Triangulations

[rfmcdonald]

Michel de Certeau's essay "Walking in the City" was the first thing that I read for class at Queen's, back in September 2003. I loved what he wrote about the voyeur, both the person poised above looking down and the flâneur making his way through the streets. Walking home, I love taking cross-sections: heading west on the streetcar, going south from a TTC station on a bus or on foot, picking a different streetcar (north, south) or a different TTC station (southwest, southeast), triangulating my destination via the places I pass through.