In the late 1980s, Cam Christiansen was a teenager living in the Edmonton suburbs, when his Danish-born dad decided to take the Christiansen family on a European vacation.<\/p>\n
That experience jump-started Christiansen\u2019s understanding of how creative cities\u2014and lives, including his own\u2014could potentially be.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you went to Europe, pre-Internet, it was actually a real culture shock,\u201d he says. \u201cI remember literally poking our heads out of the train station in Copenhagen and seeing all these European backpacker kids\u2014and they all had these great scarves and were so exotic\u2013and European!\u201d<\/p>\n
The impact upon teenaged Christiansen was total\u2014in all the best ways that a suburban teenager\u2019s life can be transformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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