[NEWS] Five links on cities: Vancouver, Edmonton, Portland, Hull, central and eastern Europe

[rfmcdonald]

• A new housing policy in Vancouver will focus, among other things, on underused and housing in well-off neighbourhoods. Global News reports.


• Can Edmonton's Accidental Beach survive? Maybe, if federal regulation and the ever-shifting waters of the North Saskatchewan River permit. Global News reports.


• Daily JSTOR links to a collection of articles explaining just how the Oregon city of Portland became a hipster mecca, here.


• Alec Charles' examination of the English city of Hull, a British City of Culture that is not only marginalized from mainstream Britain but at odds with the world (strongly pro-Brexit and all), is provocative. The article is here.


• Politico.eu notes how the failure of central and eastern European cities to pick up new EU agencies after Brexit underlines, for many, their continuing marginalization in Europe.