[NEWS] Six links: Cities and Burning Man, urban China, gentrification, Belarus, Algeria, refugees

[rfmcdonald]

• Wired features an article talking about what Burning Man, and Black Rock City, teaches us about how cities work.


• At The New Republic, Colin Kinniburgh talks about some strategies to fight gentrification, some potentially useful and others not.


• Bloomberg View observes that China's Pearl River Delta--briefly, most of urban Guangzhou from Hong Kong up--is set to have a huge property boom.
  
• Bloomberg describes how Algeria, hostile to taking on debt, is going through a period of deep austerity.


• Open Democracy looks at how the Belarusian language, despite improvements, is shut out of the country's education system.
  
• This Toronto Star article describing the detritus left by refugees fleeing New York just before they get to Canada is very sad.