[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Queens, Edmonton, San Francisco, Manizales, Tbilisi

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• VICE considers how mass transit issues in Queens will be changed by the Amazon HQ2 relocation there.


• The Edmonton alternate paper Vue Weekly will be closing down this month, Global News reports.


• The ongoing disastrous fires in California have left San Francisco with the worst recorded air quality of any city in the world, Global News reports.


• Guardian Cities looks at how the disaster-prone city of Manizales, in Colombia, prepares for catastrophes.


• Guardian Cities looks at how, after years of unregulated construction and growth, the Georgian capital of Tbilisi is trying to prepare for smarter growth.