[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: small cities, repurposed shopping malls, rent, design, networks

[rfmcdonald]

• Paul Krugman notes the exceptional fragility of small cities, depending on small industries which can easily go under, over at The New York Times.


• This feature examining how shopping mall space in American cities has been reused for new purposes is interesting, over at The Atlantic.


• How can the poor be helped most effectively in dealing with rising rent costs? Bloomberg considers.


• Atlas Obscura considers the many small design features that can be used to make cities feel a little more inhospitable.


• Shawn Micallef points out how Toronto, like all cities, is really formed of innumerable individual networks, overlapping and sometimes only rarely intersecting, over at the Toronto Star.