[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about East Asian cities facing the future

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• Singapore, with ultra-low fertility and immigration controversies, is set to face rapid population aging.


• Shenzhen, the city on the Chinese border with Hong Kong explicitly made after its neighbour, is surpassing its model.


• Well-to-do Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong are worsening that city-state's real estate crunch.


• Is China set to shift its model of economic growth to one favouring productivity and consumption in its megacities? Livemint looks at the data.


• Susan Crawford writes for Wired about how the city government of Seoul is trying to use big data to make things better.