[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: London, Halifax, Cerro Belmonte, Munich, Hong Kong

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• CBC reports on a terrible incident of racist harassment at a London, Ontario Sobeys grocery store, where one man tried to detain someone non-white as a supposed "illegal."


• Global News reports on a scandal in Halifax's growing Buddhist community, of sexual improprieties by a leader, here.


• Ozy reports on how Fidel Castro helped the Madrid suburb of Cerro Belmonte fight off an expropriation bid, here.


• Citylab discusses the proposal for an aerial gondola in Munich, as part of that city's mass transit system.


• Matthew Keegan at Guardian Cities describes how feng shui remains a central feature of design and architecture in Hong Kong.