The Globe and Mail

'It's like a Fellini set," muses acclaimed architect James Brown, referring to a one-block stretch of St. Clair Avenue West near Dufferin Street. "You have the church, the funeral parlour, the square, the school. It's just crying out for a solution."The man who designed the austere, controversial Dundas Square project is talking about a small but crowded piece of the city that happens to be short of both inviting public spaces and parking spots. In the middle of it all is a forlorn parkette, strewn with dog feces and surrounded by an ugly fence.