[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Chinatown, Alternative Thinking, Bloor West, Black Toronto,Quayside

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• Toronto's Chinatown on Spadina Avenue is facing pressures from gentrification, including architectural ones, the Toronto Star observes.


• blogTO notes that the building housing shop Alternative Thinking is the only survivor of the old Honest Ed's-anchored Mirvish Village.


• Urban Toronto shares revised plans for 2452 Bloor Street West, in Bloor West Village near Jane.


• Black people in Toronto tend to live in "segregated" neighbourhoods, census and other data suggest, according to this article in the Toronto Star.


• Global News notes the demand of privacy commissioner Anne Cavoukian for the data being gathered by Waterfront Toronto in the Quayside project.