[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: migration, public art, desire paths, neighbourhoods, world's fairs

[rfmcdonald]

• Many young people are being pushed out by high real estate prices in Toronto and Vancouver to smaller centres, to places like--for instance--Winnipeg. The Globe and Mail reports.


• This Guardian Cities article engages with an interesting question: How explicit can public art be?


• "Desire paths", the unauthorized paths across public spaces that emerge spontaneously from individual walkers' decisions, are the subject of this article at Guardian Cities.


• At CityLab, Tanvi Misra looks at a study of neighbourhoods in Detroit noting how some areas offer much more opportunity for upwards mobility and young people than others.


• Darren Anderson at CityLab considers the changing role of the World's Fair in a world where confidence in progress--in human survival, even--is becoming all the more rare.