[URBAN NOTE] Six city links: skyscrapers, Queens, Montréal, Vancouver, Gangneung, Amsterdam

[rfmcdonald]

• CNN reports on the rise of slender skyscrapers, in New York City and elsewhere.


• VICE notes how badly the temporary shutdown of the L line has been hurting the Queens neighbourhood of Astoria.


• National Observer wonders what Montréal can do to be friendlier to seniors. (Being open to consulting broader demographics is a good start.)


• Global News notes concerns in Vancouver that excessive condo development could block the view of the mountains surrounding that metropolis.


• CBC reports on the South Korean city of Gangneung, a place that has become the locus of that country's coffee culture.


• VICE reports on the effect that licenses allowing nightclubs to operate 24 hours a day has had on nightlife in Amsterdam.