[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Wawa, Calgary, Mexico City, Tirana, Hong Kong

[rfmcdonald]

• Vice shares the photographs taken by Cheyenne Jackson of the declining, aging, northern Ontario town of Wawa. What future does it have?


• At MacLean's, Jason Markusoff looks at the diminishing support for the 2026 Olympics in Calgary. Is there any case for this?


• Guardian Cities reports on the Via Verde, the vertical gardens attached to the pillars of the Mexico City freeway system. Are they merely cosmetic?


• The continued efforts of the civic authorities in the Albanian capital of Tirana to improve life in this growing city are the subject of this Guardian Cities article.


• This SCMP article makes a compelling argument that the distinctiveness of Hong Kong, as a city not wholly of China, is inexorably declining.

Comments

[armiphlage]

"The city is flat" - I don't think the author has visited Tirana. Parts of it are pretty near vertical (especially as you go towards Dijiit), and I am surprised cars can make it up the steep grades.