[PHOTO] Niagara Falls on my screen in Toronto (2)

[PHOTO] Niagara Falls on my screen in Toronto

[PHOTO] Niagara Falls map of the Niagara-Haldimand section of the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail

This map of the Niagara Peninsula, located outside of the Niagara Falls Transit Terminal on Erie Avenue, highlight this region’s component of Ontario’s Great Lakes Waterfront Trail. This section of the trail hugs the coasts of lakes Ontario and Erie and the Niagara River in between.

[PHOTO] Three photos of Niagara Falls (#niagarafalls)

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Niagara Falls, New York City, Winnipeg, Egyptian capital, Wuhan

• Guardian Cities notes the utopian plan of the founder of Gillette to make Niagara Falls into a clean, hydroelectricity-fueled North American metropolis.
• Bombardier is running into problems in supplying cars for the New York City subway, something too familiar to ex-TTC chair Andy Byford, now running the MTA. CBC reports.
• The relative affordability of housing in Winnipeg, along with relatively high incomes, makes that city a contender. Global News reports.
• The Economist notes the expensive and questionable plan to build a new capital for Egypt in the desert east of Cairo. Is this more about ensuring the stability of the dictatorship than creating a new metropolis?
• Guardian Cities looks at how the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan tries to manage the threat of water.

[ISL] Five islands links: Dufferin Islands, Antillia, Orkneys, Hawai’i, Stewart Island

• blogTO reports on the lovely Dufferin Islands of Niagara Falls, green creations in the river.
• Language Hat reports on the mythical island of Antillia, a phantom island reputed in late medieval Europe to lie far to the west of Iberia.
• Archeologists are racing to excavate and record and even protect hundreds, if not thousands, of archeological sites in the Orkney Islands ahead of rising sea levels. The National Post reports.
• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the factors that drew the 19th century kings of Hawai’i so strongly towards freemasonry.
• Janet Wainscott writes at The Island Review about her visit to New Zealand’s Stewart Island, searching for the remnants of her family’s homes and businesses there.