[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: New York City, Montréal, Hong Kong, Paris, Narva

[rfmcdonald]

• Hornet Stories has a list of some of the key LGBTQ destinations in New York City. This is something for my next trip, I think.


• Robert Everett-Green writes about the transformation of Montréal's Viauville, once a model neighbourhood funded by 19th century cookie magnate Charles-Théodore Viau, over at The Globe and Mail.


• Hong Kong is exceptionally pressed for space for housing, making land for commerce all the more difficult to come by. Bloomberg reports.


• France is planning to make a suburban wasteland in the northeast of the conurbation of Paris over into a vast forest. CityLab reports.


• DW reports on how, one hundred years after Estonia first became independent, the country's Russophones, particularly concentrated in the northeastern city of Narva, are now engaging with (and being engaged by) the wider country.