Toronto: The Unknown City

There's the Toronto on the postcards and there's the Toronto underneath. The sealed-off spaces no one knows about. The histories that didn't make it into the official version. The buildings with pasts that don't show on their faces. The city the tourist maps skip and the local papers ignore. Akler and Hood went looking for the strange, the overlooked, and the surprising. What they found is a city far more layered than its reputation suggests.

Toronto has spent decades being called boring, being called derivative, being told it doesn't have a real identity. This book is a direct refutation of that. The identity is there. It's just been hiding. Knowing where to look is what makes you a local.