[URBAN NOTE] Five cities links: Vancouver, Derry, Tehran, London, Kumamoto

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• Global News reports on how municipalities in the Metro Vancouver area have arranged to pay for new transit.


• Slugger O'Toole has a multi-part investigation looking at why Derry, second city of Northern Ireland, is so poor. The first part is here.


• Bloomberg notes that the real estate market in Tehran is definitely not friendly to hopeful buyers.


• VICE reports on how activists in London turned an empty home into a homeless shelter.


• The Finger Post's David Finger shares photos of his recent visit to Kumamoto.