[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: mass transit, TTC, photos, Pearson, Scarborough strip mall

[rfmcdonald]

• Urban Toronto shares a photo of the Toronto skyline, taken from Etobicoke looking east along the Gardiner.


• Toronto City Council can do nothing if the provincial government of Ontario decides to take over the TTC, a secret report concludes. The Toronto Star reports.


• Jonathan English at Urban Toronto considers what scenarios could result from an Ontario takeover of the TTC. The example of London, in the United Kingdom, seems particularly relevant.


• Urban Toronto reports on plans to make the area around Pearson airport a second transit hub for the GTA, alongside Union Station.


• Aparita Bhandavi at The Discourse takes a look at the importance of the strip mall, as an architectural and retail form, in Scarborough.