[URBAN NOTE] Five city notes: Montréal, Bronx, Nashville, Chicago, London

• 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

• 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.

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: Y&E, shuttle, 1929 Labour Day, Liberty V, Port Lands, Chick-fil-A

• 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.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Sainte-Marie, Saint John, Phoenix, Paris, Singapore

• 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.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Belleville, Flint, Kingston, New York City, Vancouver

• 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.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Yorkville, Burning Man, Rol San, 29 Dufferin, Cherry Street

• The Toronto Star looks back at its coverage of Yorkville in the 1960s, back when it was a hangout spot for hippies.
• Toronto Life shares photos of some Toronto-originated artworks put up at Burning Man this year, here.
• blogTO notes that Rol San, a leading dim sum place in Chinatown, might be erased by a 13-story tower.
• The crowding on the 29 Dufferin bus produced by the CNE is something I notice regularly. blogTO reports.
• The Cherry Street Bridge, after a month, is finally going to be fixed. blogTO reports.

[VIDEO] Humber River flowing, north of the Humber Bay Arch Bridge

[PHOTO] East along Wallace Avenue

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: GO Transit, rent, land transfer tax, books, Viaduct

• 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.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Montréal, Longueuil, Halifax, Edmonton

• Kingston is working on its third bridge connection up the Cataraqui, this one well upstream of other bridges. Global News reports.
• CityLab praises the redesign of the Bonaventure Expressway in Montréal into a boulevard, noting the revivification of Griffintown produced as a result.
• The new Québec government is open to a further extension of the Yellow Line subway into Longueuil, apparently more open than it is to the the Pink Line in Montréal proper. CTV News reports.
• Is a CFL stadium and a team in Halifax viable? Much depends on a bid that is as much about the standing of Halifax as a major centre as anything else. Global News reports.
• The new Capilano branch of the public library system of Edmonton looks lovely. Global News shows the location.