[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga and Brampton, Montréal, Vancouver, New York City, Miami

[rfmcdonald]

• CBC notes the underrepresentation of politicians of visible minority background in the city councils of Mississauga and Brampton.


• MTL Blog reports on the different plans of the different political parties in the Québec election for mass transit plans. (I really like the Québec Solidaire plan's ambition.)


• Catherine Tse at the SCMP takes a look at the different sorts of businesses run by young wealthy people, often socialites, of Asian immigrant background in Vancouver.


• Henry Grabar at Slate writes about a paper examining the tactics adopted by different groups in New York City--Hasidic Jews, Chinese, and Bangladeshis--faced with high real estate prices, from intensification to diffusion to underground housing.


• Christian Portilla at VICE writes about how gentrification is undermining the basis for the Miami neighbourhood of Little Haiti, driving out long-time residents.