[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Galleria Mall, PATH, streetcars, BMR, float homes

[rfmcdonald]

• Urban Toronto notes that Toronto city council has granted approval for rezoning the Galleria Mall, making plans for a massive high-density redevelopment possible.


• blogTO reports that, finally, a website has appeared that will let people navigate the underground PATH network downtown. (An app will come later.)


• Steve Munro notes how the Bombardier streetcar debacle not only undermines that company, but threatens the presence of the streetcar in Toronto.


• Spacing shares Gabriel Eidelman's explanation of the history of Toronto's Bureau of Municipal Research, and why he decided to bring it back.


• Toronto Life shares photos of the float homes moored off the docks in Scarborough's Bluffer's Park Marina, and the people who live there.