[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: poverty, real estate, architecture, neighbourhoods

[rfmcdonald]

• After a fire last night, the homeless encampments underneath the Gardiner Expressway have been cleared. Global News reports.


• blogTO reports on a terribly depressing unit offered for rent in East York at $C 1250.


• blogTO notes that a new pedestrian sky bridge is scheduled to be built in Exhibition Place.


• Urban Toronto notes that the steel skeleton has been put in place for the new extension to Robarts Library.


• blogTO reports on moves to place Ontario Place under heritage protection, sparing it redevelopment.


• George Popper writes at Spacing against new city development protocols for Toronto neighbourhoods.


• The state of 650 Parliament Street, now slated to be reopened in August of this year, is appalling. The Toronto Star reports.