Windsor: Then & Now

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Windsor, Ontario: the City of Roses, the Automotive Capital of Canada, South Detroit. Whatever name you know it by, this is a city that has flourished and transformed over the years, growing and changing with its industrial nature. InWindsor: Then & Now, architectural specialist Andrew Foot partners with landscape photographer Ian Virtue to explore the life of this mid-sized, blue-collar town through photographs. By contrasting historic images, stretching from the turn of the century to the modernist 1970s, with photographs of todays Windsor, we see a cityscape in vivid relief. From the Gothic towers of St. Marys Academy, levelled for a suburban neighbourhood, to the vibrant downtown Norwich Block replaced by the skyscraping Chrysler tower,Windsor: Then & Nowshows us a city balancing a rich heritage with a taste for the newa constant flux, shifting and renewing itself with the times.