There are rows of suburban bungalows, big trees, wooden playgrounds with climbable webs made of old tires and metal chains. 

There is a museum with a really good rock and fossil collection and those old tin clips you used to have to put on your lapel to prove you paid admission. Brown architecture, not grey. There’s a Blockbuster and also a few independent video stores, stocked only with movies released before ‘95. There’s a big Cineplex with a magnificent arcade and a few small independent theatres. McDonald’s playrooms all over the place.

Population is hand-picked — document the whole thing to allow accessible repatterining for the general population

Oh and the portals >>>> they will be tunnels opening from various hidden points: in the playrooms, in basement crawlspaces, under beds. They lead to the upside-down shadowlands, liminal spaces that are eerie and sexually charged, some as infinite and recursive as the backrooms — these help regain access to closed off corridors of the original human psyche

INCLUDES

Biosphere with indoor parks and activities providing free communal space in the winter

Yours ever-interestingly,

Robin Richardson

Subscribe to CANADATOWN on Substack for free to deep dive into personally curated Canadian Nostalgia