Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Touchstones -- The city as cultureshed -- Live Without Culture: An apology, on the occasion of a recent art project -- Toronto: The once and future city -- The Hard Loft -- The secret capitalist -- The challenges of the creative city -- 5 -- Topography -- The invisible city: What happens when Hollywood North plays itself? -- Toronto needs freakier rich people -- Breaking the mirror: How to look at fashion in Toronto -- Annexing a space for poetry in the new Toronto -- Now the feminists will play with your mind -- All the world's onstage: Toronto's multiplicity of arts festivals -- Connected: How Stille Post changed the Toronto indie-music scene -- The cult[ure] of the architect, or, the Fountainhead effect -- Our hidden cameras: Photoblogging the city's every move -- Chapter 17 -- Toronto's Tower of Babel -- Leaving their mark: Street art in Toronto -- The Arts at the Ex: The history and potential of Exhibition Place -- Toil -- E = emcees2: Toronto rappers buddy up to solve the riddle of the missing infrastructure -- Magnetic North: Toronto's magazines come off the page -- The root of the problem -- Was this book shade-grown? Towards fair-trade Toronto lit -- A future history of Toronto's art cultures: A conversation -- Urban enchantment: What city-lovers can learn from theatre in public space -- Toronto video: Challenging forms, channelling change -- From idle to idol -- In the small-press village: New trends in adequate stapling -- Tomorrow -- Mom, Dad, will you co-sign my mortgage? Creating a new home for Toronto's small arts organizations -- Project Laneway -- The family that rocks together stays together -- This is your city on technology -- The Great Divide -- From NuMuFest to Muziekgebouw: New music in Toronto -- Artburbia? -- Toronto the dead: Imagining a lost city.

The party line: Toronto's turn towards a participatory aesthetics -- Utopians.