[URBAN NOTE] Five links about cities, from failing subways to changing neighbourhoods to borders

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• The Globe and Mail's Joanna Slater talks about how the subway system of New York City is staggering from catastrophe to catastrophe.


• The Globe and Mail's Stephen Quinn argues it is much too late to save Vancouver's Chinatown from radical redevelopment.


• The Toronto Star's Tess Kalinowski writes about how young buyers are driving a push for laneway housing in Toronto.
  
• Bryan Tucker, also in the Toronto Star, also makes the case for laneway housing.


• The National Post shares a story about an affordable 18th century house on the Québec-Vermont border.