[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto notes: Humber River Bay and Christie's, towers, Google at Quayside, vans

[rfmcdonald]

• The area of Humber River Bay may yet be radically transformed by the development of the vast Christie's site. The Globe and Mail reports.


• Torontoist notes how the City of Toronto is starting to let apartment dwellers know if they might die in a disastrous fire like Grenfell.


• Wired reports on the vast Google plan to make not just Quayside but the entire waterfront a high-tech prototype.


• TVO's John Michael McGrath argues that the city does not need Google to design good neighbourhoods.


• Apparently many people are escaping the Toronto affordable housing crisis by moving into vans. The Toronto Star reports.