[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New York City, Espíritu Pampa, London, Skopje

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• People around Beaudry station in Montréal, in the middle of the Village gay, are preparing for that station's protracted shutdown. Global News reports.


• I, for one, approve entirely of the idea of a squirrel census in New York City's Central Park. Global News reports.


• This report in the Guardian on the lost Inca city of Espíritu Pampa, famed for its resistance to the conquistadors and only recently uncovered, tells an amazing story.


• CityLab notes how non-Londoner British often feel shut out by the high cost of living and lack of affordable housing in London.


• This CityLab article takes a look at the modernist architecture in the North Macedonian capital of Skopje, largely rebuilt after a devastating 1960s earthquake.