[URBAN NOTE] Ten Montréal links

• La Presse notes the restoration of the old Archambault sign to its location at Sainte-Catherine and Berri. (I am reminded of the Sam the Record Man sign in Toronto.)
• HuffPostQuebec notes that some of the strings of balls from 18 nuances de gai are up for sale.
• Expelling Hong Kong activists from the Montréal pride parade should not have been done. CBC Montreal reports.
• Camillien-Houde Way, on Mount Royal, will become more difficult for cyclists with the removal of a traffic light. CTV reports.
• Les Forges de Montréal, heritage to the city’s blacksmithing tradition, has been saved. Global News reports.
• Historian Desmond Morton, of McGill, has died. CBC Montreal reports.
• The City of Montréal is trying to fight against food insecurity. CBC Montreal U>reports.
• Craig Desson at CBC Montreal reports on the lasting legacy of Moshe Safdie and Habitat 67, and the replication of this prefabricated concrete model in rising Asia.
• Actions of clients are the leading causes of delays on the Metro. CBC Montreal reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Eight Toronto links: neighbourhoods, housing, mass transit, Great Lakes

• I do agree with the argument of Emma Teitel in the Toronto Star that, between the east and the west of Toronto, the west is the more snobbish. (West-ender, here.)
• blogTO notes that home prices in Toronto are ridiculously out of the reach of average millennials.
• Is multi-generational housing the solution to the housing shortage in Toronto? The Toronto Star reports.
• Toronto Life profiles</u. the photos taken by Jesse Colin Jackson of the now-demolished Regent Park building of 14 Blevins Place.
• The story of the terrible, expensive architectural problems with the TTC’s Pioneer Village station is appalling. The Toronto Star reports.
• Steve Munro notes how the TTC is decidedly unhappy with the failings of Presto.
• Christian Mittelstaedt writes at NOW Toronto about how the flooding of the Toronto Islands this year can be traced, in part, to problems with how Canada and the United States jointly manage the Great Lakes.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Innisfil, Montréal, Yellowknife, Miami Beach, Plovdiv

• CityLab notes how the effort of exurban Innisfil to use Uber as a substitute for mass transit did not work as expected.
• HuffPost Québec looks at how the Québec government is prioritizing the REM suburban light rails over the proposed Pink Line.
• Yellowknife may see the construction of a decidedly green four-story building. CBC North reports.
• CityLab looks at the experience of Miami Beach in using public art to put itself on the map.
• Guardian Cities looks at how the city of Plovdiv, second-largest city in Bulgaria, is trying to attract past emigrants from the country.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Galleria Mall, Ontario vs Toronto, Ontario Line, housing, theatre

• Urban Toronto shares a detailed plan for the Galleria Mall redevelopment.
• Jennifer Pagliaro at the Toronto Star shows how the Ontario government keeps undermining decisions made in Toronto, here.
• Actually building the Ontario Line, beneath Fort York and the Don River, will be a very tricky affair. The Toronto Star reports.
• This Toronto Star article describing how four young adults in their early 20s have to cram into a single apartment in order to live in Toronto is a terrible indictment of our housing policies.
• Rick Salutin at Rabble celebrates the achievements of Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: TTC and mass transit

• Urban Toronto notes the remarkable new plan proposed by Ontario for Toronto subways, including a line running from Ontario Place on the water up through to the Ontario Science Centre on Eglinton.
• blogTO shares some of the criticism the new Ontario plans for the subway have gotten.
• Steve Munro reacts to the new Ontario plan for Toronto subways, here.
• blogTO notes the new proposed names for stations on the Finch LRT line.
• The Discourse notes a community meeting in Scarborough where locals express concern for the fate of the Eglinton East LRT.
• The conversion of the TTC entirely from tokens towards Presto has been delayed, blogTO notes.
• The modernization of signals on existing subway lines has been delayed and is becoming much more expensive, the Toronto Star notes.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: new subway stations, bike routes, land transfer, rent, Faith Goldy

• Although the York University station on the York extension of the subway line is heavily used, two of the newest ones are among the least used. The Toronto Star reports.
• Philip Gordon Mackintosh at The Conversation notes how, in Toronto and in other cities, traffic of whatever kind including bikes follows the routes laid out by planners.
• Spacing shares a proposal by Zack Taylor to transfer income generated by the land transfer tax from the operating budget to the capital budget, the better to husband this wealth.
• Prospective tenants in Toronto are using social media photos to try to find new homes. The Toronto Star reports.
• Former mayoral candidate Faith Goldy has been ordered to pay Bell more than forty thousand dollars, to compensate them for the costs of her lawsuit against them for not airing her ad. CityNews reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga, Montréal, New York City, Winnipeg, Tijuana

• After consultation with indigenous groups, Mississauga is removing all Indigenous symbols from sports teams and facilities. blogTO reports.
• This Huffington Post Québec article, in French, notes that Montréal can make a very good case for again supporting a major league baseball team. The Expos may return.
• VICE notes that the idea of legalizing marijuana sales in New York State, and of devoting the funds raised from marijuana taxation to rebuilding the New York City subway station, is becoming popular.
• The latest redrawing of provincial electoral boundaries in Manitoba leaves the growing metropolis of Winnipeg with one seat more and rural Manitoba with one seat less. Global News reports.
• Laura Agustín reports on the experiences of a volunteer lawyer working with the Central American migrant caravan in Tijuana, here.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Windsor, Québec City, Calgary, Tokyo, Tijuana

• Low-lying Windsor, Ontario, faces the prospect of serious flooding that might be alleviated if old features of the natural landscape like trees and wetlands were restored. CBC reports.
• Robert Vandewinkel at Huffington Post Québec makes an argument for a subway system for Québec City.
• Jason Markusoff at MacLean’s, noting the referendum vote in Calgary against hosting the 2026 Olympics, suggests this vote can be best sign as a sign of this city’s maturity and confidence, that Calgary does not need the Olympics to be successful.
• The Diplomat notes how costs for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have ballooned, despite promises of an affordable Olympics.
• VICE notes the plight of the Central American refugees gathering at Tijuana, unlikely to gain asylum in the United States.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: retro maps, Sherbourne, ward councils, Anthropocene, Faith Goldy

• The Map Room Blog shares this fantastic 1950s-style travel map for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, created by Warren Davidson.
• blogTO notes the installation of some new mural panels at Sherbourne Station.
• Dylan Ward at Spacing Toronto considers how ward councils, elected or otherwise, might work in Toronto.
• Fatima Syed at the National Observer takes a look at the stunning new exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Anthropocene, and its import for the human relationship to the environment.
• This profile by Anna Silman at The Cut of Faith Goldy, her former schoolmate and friend, is compelling reading. What happened?

[URBAN NOTE] Five New York City links (#nyc): subways, global warming, Coney Island

• This CityLab explanation why new York City stopped building new subway lines is sad.
• The libertarian Manhattan Institute notes just how much the metropolis depends on its subway system, here.
• CityLab notes that temperatures on the subway system of New York City in summer are becoming dangerously high.
• The L Train shutdown is pushing down rents in parts of Brooklyn, VICE reports.
• JSTOR Daily notes how the amusement park of Coney Island once was a major showcase for babies receiving medical care in incubators, and why this was the case.