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- People in Montréal will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to walk over the Champlain Bridge, scheduled for demolition in the near future. Global News reports.
- The Conversation looks at the mass tourism, after Joker, directed towards a flight of stairs in The Bronx, and what this means for cities.
- CityLab notes the deep upset of the numerous and influential Kurds of Nashville with Trump.
- CityLab looks at how a Chicago magazine reflects the gentrification of large parts of that metropolis.
- Guardian Cities takes a look at what maps of Victorian London, mapping disparities of wealth and social dysfunction, reveal about the city now.
[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links
Oct. 26th, 2019 06:13 pm- blogTO looks at the Toronto of the 1950s, when Highway 2--Lake Shore and Kingston Road--was the way into the city.
- Jamie Bradburn takes a look at a 1950 tourist guide to Ontario, specifically focusing on its descriptions of Toronto.
- Jamie Bradburn looks at how, in the post-war era, dining at the Coxwell Kresge in-house restaurant was a thing.
- blogTO notes how many in Leslieville are unhappy with the idea of the Ontario Line being built above-ground.
- Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto notes that there is going to be a Pride rally outside of Palmerston library where Meghan Murphy will be speaking.
- Spacing looks at the connections between Nuit Blanche and the Toronto Biennial, for Toronto as an artistic city.
- NOW Toronto shares some photos of Honest Ed's in its dying days.
- Toronto Life tells the story of Peperonata Lane, a west-end laneway that took its name from a popular neighbourhood pepper-roasting event.
- blogTO notes a new movie being filmed in Regent Park, here.
- blogTO shares photos of the new Garrison Crossing pedestrian bridge, here.
- Will a pedestrian death at Yonge and Eglinton lead to an easing of the nightmare for people faced with Eglinton Crosstown construction? blogTO ,a href="https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/09/yonge-eglinton-construction-pedestrian-nightmare/">reports.
- An automated shuttle is set to pilot in 2020 in east-end Toronto. Global News reports.
- Jamie Bradburn writes about the Labour Day celebrations in Toronto in 1929, here.
- blogTO notes the construction of a much-needed pedestrian bridge in Liberty Village, here.
- Guardian Cities notes official skepticism in Toronto over the Sidewalk Labs proposal in the Port Lands, here.
- Andrew Wheeler, writing in the Toronto Star, notes that the appearance of institutionally homophobic Chick-fil-A just a few minutes walk from Church and Wellesley, poses a threat that needs to be fought.
- The flood-damaged community of Sainte-Marie, in the Beauce south of Québec City, may not recover from necessary demolitions of damaged and dangerous structures. CBC reports.
- Erecting a barrier at an apparently suicide-attracting bridge like the Reversing Falls Bridge in Saint John makes perfect sense to me. Global News has it.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that, happily, voters in Phoenix have voted again in support of a light rail mass transit project.
- Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution notes that the department of Paris has continued to lose population, contrary to the experience of growth elsewhere in other similar world cities.
- CityLab makes the case for Changi Airport, in Singapore, as a world-class attraction in its own right.
- Rising real estate prices in Toronto are driving similar increases in communities far from the GTA like Belleville. The Toronto Star reports.
- VICE reports on how good food can lead the rehabilitation of Flint, Michigan.
- Kingston will take three years to build its latest bridge. Global News reports.
- Beaches like NYC's Rockaway Beach are facing pressures from climate change and from gentrification, CityLab reports.
- Many of the homeless camped in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park are being rehoused, as part of a slow-moving campaign. Global News reports.
- Transit Toronto notes that GO Transit has introduced regular weekday train service to Niagara Falls.
- Average monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Toronto has hit #C 2260. blogTO reports.
- Revenue from the much-needed land transfer tax that supplies City of Toronto budgets is below expectations, the Toronto Star reported.
- NOW Toronto shares a list of the most-borrowed books from the Toronto Public Library system in 2018.
- Spacing celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Prince Edward Viaduct, also known as the Bloor Street Viaduct, arcing across the Don River.
- The idea of making the Toronto Islands an officially designated bird sanctuary makes sense on a lot of levels. The Toronto Star reports.
- The community of Saanich, on Vancouver Island, is expected to host the biggest marijuana farm in Canada come legalization, making many there unhappy. Global News reports.
- Trump tariffs may doom a pulp and paper mills in the western Newfoundland city of Corner Brook. CBC reports.
- Wired features this heartbreaking choices facing the inhabitants of the Louisiana town of Isle de Jean Charles as their island submerges beneath rising waters. What will they do? Where will they go? Can the community survive?
- CityMetric tells the story about how people on the Channel Island of Jersey wanted to build a bridge to France, why this didn't happen, and how this relates to Brexit.
This bridge over Mimico Creek, connecting the western and eastern segments of Humber Bay Park, is rather dramatic, what with its northern lip arcing out towards Mimico and the condo towers lining Lake Shore Boulevard.
- Amazon shipping centres in the Greater Toronto Area are preparing themselves for Cyber Monday tomorrow. The Toronto Star reports.
- The disdain for higher education reported by the National Post in many parts of the United States is positively alarming. Where will American human capital come from without this? More here.
- Two private owners of bridges on the US-Mexican border fear the consequence of NAFTA failing on their business. The Toronto Star reports here.
- Mike De Souza reports on the fact that he, writing for the National Observer, was the only Canadian journalist covering the recent Bonn climate change summit. His article is here.
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I decided to walk at least part of the way home from an evening meditation session at Broadview and Danforth, over the Prince Edward Viaduct at twilight. I love this bridge, with its majestic arcs over the Don Valley below, and its colour-shifting Luminous Veil.
"Wallace Avenue Footbridge" seems to be the most common name on the Internet for the large steel truss bridge that stretches over the rail lines north of Bloor at Dundas West, connecting Dundas Street West on the west side of the rail line with Wallace Avenue and the Junction Triangle on the east side. The views offered from the platform are wonderful, unmatched in the city, whether looking south towards Bloor Street and the GO Station and the towers of Crossways, north towards the Junction, or west (or east) towards the streets below.
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My noontime post of Confederation Bridge assembly yard photos drew substantially from the western point of the complex, facing the Confederation Bridge. On the eastern and especially southern ends of Amherst Point there was more, with quite a lot of graffiti on the pillars in the southeastern corner of the area.
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On my 2014 trip I had photographed the assembly yard where the components of the Confederation Bridge had been assembly. Yesterday, I was happy to find that, contrary to suggestions made this winter, the assembly yard had not been torn down, and went with my parents to explore the vast complex.
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blogTO let me know that the proposal for a pedestrian bridge at Fort York cancelled by Rob Ford in 2011 is on again, courtesy CP24's Chris Fox.
The city has unveiled the design for two new pedestrian bridges that will traverse a pair of rail tracks in the west end, connecting Stanley Park with the Fort York historic grounds and the nearby waterfront.
The $19.7 million Fort York Pedestrian and Cycle bridge will actually consist of two separate stainless steel spans, one that will run above the Georgetown rail corridor near Strachan Avenue and another that will run above the Lakeshore rail corridor further south.
The project will also see the areas surrounding either bridge developed into parkland.
Construction will begin in the spring with a targeted completion date of spring 2017
The Confederation Bridge was built locally, on Prince Edward Island. The intricate processes occurred at the Amherst Point assembly yard, built on a 165 acre farm bought from one John L. Read.
At its peak, the plant employed two thousand people. When I visited the site last month with my parents, nothing was left by empty fields filled with huge concrete constructions. It felt almost as if I was walking among the megaliths of the Old World. What will future generations of archeologists think of this site?
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At its peak, the plant employed two thousand people. When I visited the site last month with my parents, nothing was left by empty fields filled with huge concrete constructions. It felt almost as if I was walking among the megaliths of the Old World. What will future generations of archeologists think of this site?
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The Confederation Bridge connecting Prince Edward Island (at Borden-Carleton) to the mainland in New Brunswick (at Cape Jourimain) is an engineering marvel. It is vast: even large trucks are dwarfed by its concrete structure.
I took quite a few photos today and saw quite a few things with my parents. These four photos are taken of the Confederation Bridge, the great fixed link between Prince Edward Island and the mainland. The first two were taken from the deserted assembly site, filled with megalithic constructions in concrete, while the second pair were taken from much closer up.
[PHOTO] O'Connor over Taylor Creek
Nov. 27th, 2009 01:13 pmThe majesty of the concrete arches of the O'Connor Drive bridge over Taylor Creek makes me appreciate Le Corbusier for the first time.
See the relevant Boldts page for another take.
This is the underside of the south of the bridge.
This is the underside of the north of the O'Connor bridge.
Here's a look at the south side of the bridge from the east, with Jerry on the path.
See the relevant Boldts page for another take.
This is the underside of the south of the bridge.
This is the underside of the north of the O'Connor bridge.
Here's a look at the south side of the bridge from the east, with Jerry on the path.
