[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Detroit and Windsor, Calgary, Los Angeles, London, Russian cities

[rfmcdonald]

• The controversy over a new bridge connecting American Detroit to Canadian Windsor continues, on and on. The National Post reports.


• Jason Markusoff at MacLean's notes the tenuous position of the tens of thousands of people who live in Calgary's flood zones.


• Wired notes how the city of Los Angeles will need to spend billions of dollars to protect itself against sea level rise.


• The Guardian notes the shocking story of a mixed-income real estate development in London that excludes subsidized tenants from access to athletic facilities.


• Window on Eurasia notes how, on the basis of current trends, relatively sizable Russian cities including Novokuznetsk, Ivanovo, and Norilsk might depopulate by the end of the 21st century.