[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Cleveland, Osaka and San Francisco, Port City, Sihanoukville

[rfmcdonald]

• CityLab wonders how the new CAQ government of Québec will come into conflict with Valérie Laplante in Montréal, a city that wants mass transit not highways and that voted against the CAQ.


• CityLab considers what could become of The Mall, the neglected central park of Cleveland.


• Osaka just cut its ties with San Francisco over that city's erection of a monument honouring the comfort women of Second World War Japan. VICE reports.


• This article in Guardian Cities examining the Chinese creation of a virtually new and highly autonomous city, Port City, on Sri Lanka to support China's aspirations in the Indian Ocean is revealing.


• Kris Janssens at the Inter Press Service looks at how the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville is being transformed by Chinese investment and trade into a regional metropolis.

Comments

[dewline]

I fear for Montréal. But then, I'm not sure that I can remember a time when that wasn't the case.