[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares media exploring how Toronto was marketed internationally in the 1980s. This decade apparently saw less concentration on landmarks and more on cultural activities.


• The Map Room Blog links to a National Geographic collection of the childhood maps of cartographers.


• Marginal Revolution notes that the loosening of China's one-child policy has not resulted in much change.


• Justin Petrone wonders if Estonians are weird.


• Steve Munro reports on the many, many problematic things coming out of Metrolinx, including fare-by-distance and the ongoing PRESTO disasters.


• Supernova Condensate shares a thought-provoking set of statues on global warming, Follow the Leaders.


• Torontoist's Kieran Delamont notes the astonishing thoughtlessness of new fashion brand Homeless Toronto.


• Window on Eurasia looks at a Belarus in a state of political ferment that might--might--be pre-revolutionary, and wonders if disbanding Russia's ethnic republics could be profoundly destabilizing.