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How the pandemic made me appreciate my neighbourhood

How the pandemic made me appreciate my neighbourhood

I live in CityPlace, a neighbourhood in the Fort York area in Toronto, Canada. With its steely highrises and uncozy streets, I wasn’t a…
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Jiya Benni
How Toronto Programs its Public Spaces in Winter

How Toronto Programs its Public Spaces in Winter

Winter is here. This is my second one in Canada. I won’t complain much about it (touchwood!) but I got to say for the most part, its more…
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Jiya Benni
Reblog: Building Social Capital Through Bottom-Up Urbanism in Athens

Reblog: Building Social Capital Through Bottom-Up Urbanism in Athens

This one came to me as a volunteer assignment from Laneway Project, a nonprofit organisation in Toronto that works to convert laneways to…
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Jiya Benni
Reblog: The (For)ever Green Brick Works

Reblog: The (For)ever Green Brick Works

Ever since I got to Toronto, the Evergreen Brick Works was in my husband’s ‘to-show-Jiya’ list. And when we finally made the trip up there…
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Jiya Benni
How the Biennale Opened up the Warehouses of Colonial Cochin

How the Biennale Opened up the Warehouses of Colonial Cochin

My earliest memories of Mattancherry or Fort Kochi would easily be the weekend trips my family made to get Kaayikka’s biriyani. We would…
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Jiya Benni
Case for Change: The Walk to the Waterfront in Toronto

Case for Change: The Walk to the Waterfront in Toronto

Lake Ontario in Toronto has unknowingly become an important part of my everyday life. I can see it from our apartment albeit between the…
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Jiya Benni
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