[URBAN NOTE] Six links on future cities: new ones, technology, highways, recovery, density, Quayside

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• Wade Shepard at Forbes notes the hundreds of entirely new cities being built up around the world.


• Ron Sullivan at Motherboard notes some of the new technologies needed to make future cities liveable.


• Douglas Murphy at The Guardian notes some of the cities around the world that fought against ill-judged highway projects, Toronto and the Spadina Expressway featuring prominently in this list.


• Will American cities left behind by the financial crash have a chance to catch up? One hopes. Bloomberg reports.


• Global News notes a Fraser Institute report suggesting Vancouver--and other Canadian cities--lag behind many peers in density. They can become more affordable, in other words, if they shift to denser residential patterns.


• Ian Austen at The New York Times takes a look at the Google project in Quayside here in Toronto, and what it might mean (and what it might threaten, too).