"What could have been," by Christopher Hume (TheStar.com | Columns & Blogs) - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Nov 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  Hume discusses a new book about Toronto, "Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been," by Mark Osbaldeston. What I find compelling for my interest in Victoria is Hume's reference at the start to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (which immediately conjures Marianne Faithful's rendition) and his reference to Venice as a beautiful corpse preserved for tourists.
  
  It seems we have a lot of necrophilia in this town (Victoria), but it would be *really* interesting to do an article on our Boulevard of Broken Dreams -- with an eye to showing how failure proves that this is indeed still a living/ working city, and not just some kind of Disneyville.

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