[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: mass transit, inequality, Midwest vs Northeast, Slab City, Europe

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• CityLab notes that mass transit failed in the United States not because it was unsuited for American cities but, rather, because mass transit was killed there.


• Geographic inequality in the United States is worsening, CityLab reports.


• Bloomberg View notes that, unlike in the US Northeast where population growth is concentrated in a few major centres, the US Midwest has recently been seeing more regionally balanced growth.


• Sarah Holder at CityLab takes a look at Slab City, an unrecognized settlement deep in California's Colorado Desert that has persisted for seven decades.


• Feargus O'Sullivan at CityLab looks at how, in the European Union, population aging and shrinkage is most significant away from prosperous capital cities.