[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

[rfmcdonald]

• A beautiful Toronto would be nice, but this goal will take planning. The Toronto Star reports.


• Sean Marshall writes about the sad ironies of suburban neighbourhoods in Toronto unsafe for pedestrians.


• Jamie Bradburn takes a look at Davenport Road in the past, here.


• Transit Toronto notes the arrival tomorrow in the GTA of the Holiday Trains of the CPR, part of a fundraising campaign for foodbanks.


• Spacing shares an essay considering the idea of a map of Toronto according to runnability.


• Sidekick West, a new comic shop in the Junction Triangle, has unfortunately closed down. blogTO reports.


• Toronto Life breaks down the references in the massive 10-story mural painted by BirdO at Yonge and St. Clair.