[URBAN NOTE] Five cities links: Hamilton, Detroit, Luxembourg, Lisbon, Comrat

[rfmcdonald]

• Mark McNeil at the Hamilton Spectator notes that real estate prices in Hamilton, often thought of as Toronto's less expensive bedroom community, are also rising very quickly.


• The VICE article takes a look at the man who created Detroit's African Bead Museum.


• The former red-light district of Luxembourg City is also maneuvering to take advantage of the post-Brexit resettlement of Europeans financiers. Bloomberg reports.


• Architectuul looks at how architects in Lisbon are trying to take advantage of their changing city, to help make it more accessible to all.


• The Guardian has a photo essay focusing on Comrat, a decidedly Soviet-influenced city that is the capital of the autonomous region of Gagauzia, in Moldova.