[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about cities: Arctic, floating, cemeteries, wildlife, immigrants

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• Wired noted how Arctic cities were facing significant problems from melting permafrost, and how they were trying to deal with this threat.


• CityLab notes the ever-popular idea of a floating city, riding the waves.


• Atlas Obscura notes, unsurprisingly, that some cemeteries in the United States were used as parks. Why not? These can be lovely green spaces. Just look at Toronto's Mount Pleasant and Prospect cemeteries.


• In a feature on Menno Schilthuizen's Darwin Comes to Town, Simon Worrall at National Geographic looks at the many and varied ways wildlife can adapt to city life.


• Melissa Byrnes, at Lawyers, Guns and Money, noted how Trump's rhetoric of ICE "liberating" American communities echoed ways in which French authorities in the Algerian war militarized immigrant neighbourhoods.