[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Calgary, Oakland, Tonantzintla, Istanbul

[rfmcdonald]

• Real estate prices in Hamilton continue to rise. This is unsurprising to me, given what I saw of that neighbour city last week. Global News reports.


• Guardian Cities takes a look at how Calgary came to embrace its Calatrava-designed Peace Bridge extending across the Peace River, despite some controversy.


• Gracie McKenzie at CityLab interviews author Tommy Orange about his representation of the Califoria city of Oakland and urban Native Americans in his novel There, There.


• Guardian Cities notes how, and why, the people of the Mexican city of Santa Maria Tonantzintla resisted their community's transformation into one of Mexico's first smart cities.


• Ece Goksedef at Middle East Eye writes about the profound insecurity felt by Middle Eastern exiles in Istanbul after Khashoggi's killing, since their countries have shown their willingness to murder even those people newly safe in Turkey.