[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Charlotte, Baltimore, Wasaga Beach, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Macau

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• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps takes a look at the regularity, and otherwise, of different cities' street grids.


• CityLab notes how the city of Baltimore is suing Big Oil over the effects of climate change, including flooding.


• The Lake Huron resort community of Wasaga Beach turns out to have strong connections with the Lithuanian-Canadian community.


• CityLab takes a look at the love food critic Jonathan Gold expressed for the city of Los Angeles in his writing.

The SCMP notes that the British government in the 1980s was so opposed to Hong Kongers gaining the right to live in the UK that they tried to get Portugal to strip full citizenship from eligible Macanese.