[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Burlington, Hamilton, Montréal, Miami, Shenzhen

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• The mayors of Hamilton and Burlington have announced their opposition to any changes to the Ontario Greenbelt legislation, the Toronto Star reports.


• CBC Hamilton reports that units in a prominent downtown apartment building has been converted to condos.


• National Observer looks at the threat that a new Université de Montréal campus in Montréal poses to the Park Extension neighbourhood.


• CityLab takes a look at how the construction of Interstate 95, in Miami, destroyed the black neighbourhood of Overtown.


• The Chinese city of Shenzhen has converted its bus fleet entirely over to electric units, Guardian Cities reports.