[PHOTO] Five photos of the Mimico Creek Bridge, Humber Bay Park

This bridge over Mimico Creek, connecting the western and eastern segments of Humber Bay Park, is rather dramatic, what with its northern lip arcing out towards Mimico and the condo towers lining Lake Shore Boulevard.

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: computer dating, real estate, Canoe Landing, Christian Dior

• Spacing's Chris Bateman has an amusing piece about Toronto's first experiments with computer dating, in 1957.


• Edward Keenan makes the case that Toronto should prepare for the consequences of the housing market finally tanking, over at the Toronto Star.


• blogTO notes an impressive design for a new multi-function community centre down at Canoe Landing.


• Michelle Da Silva describes, at NOW Toronto, what looks like a spectacular exhibit of the works of Christian Dior at the ROM.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about two days recently spent in Washington D.C. I would like to go there myself, I think, and for more than a quick bus transfer in the night.


• Crooked Timber considers what the upper classes of the United States are getting from the new tax cuts.


• Daily JSTOR considers the ethics of having the art of Banksy displayed in the occupied West Bank. Is it ethical?


• Far Outliers notes the impact of missionary organizations on the US Peace Corps.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas notes that the "we" used in talk about technology does not include everyone, that it is a selective "we."


• Imageo shares satellite imagery of the Arctic suggesting this winter in North America will be a harsh one.


• Language Hat links to an article noting the dialect of English that refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos have developed.


• The LRB Blog shares a report of a visit to the Estonian National Museum, and a reflection on the mythology of nationhood.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper claiming legalized abortion, not birth control, played the leading role in the emancipation of American women.


• The NYR Daily notes the cult of personality surrounding Obama.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders what happened to the Afro-Argentines, numerous until the 19th century.


• Drew Rowsome notes a reading of the classic gay Canadian play Fortune and Men's Eyes, scheduled for the 11th at Buddies in Bad Times.


• Window on Eurasia links to a scholarly examination of the Soviet annexation of once-independent Tannu Tuva, back in 1944.

[URBAN NOTE] William's Harbour, Kingston (Ontario and New York), Halifax, New York City

• Lindsay Jones and Darren Calabrese explore the last days of Williams Harbour, a now-abandoned Labrador outpost, over at MacLean's.


• The massive success of mass transit in Kingston, Ontario, pleases me. Global News reports.


• This VICE feature shows how the people of Kingston, New York, celebrate their town's destruction by the British in the War of American Independence, here.


• Brett Bundale explores how Haligonians only began engaging with the painful memories of the Halifax Explosion a half-century after its occurrence, over</> at Global News.


• The case that New York City's subway should not be a 24-hour service, to allow for basic maintenance (among other things), seems a strong one. VICE reports.