[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Queens, Fort McMurray, Casablanca, Aleppo, Baghdad

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• Guardian Cities looks at prosperous Long Island City and hard-pressed Blissville, two neighbourhoods of Queens that will be transformed by Amazon moving in.


• CBC notes how, for Fort McMurray five years after the oil boom's end, the bust is the new normal.


• CityLab reports on how the Art Deco Les Abbattoirs complex in Casablanca, once an emerging artist hub, has been emptied by the city government.


• This Middle East Eye feature looks at the relief and loss felt by returning survivors in Aleppo.


• Guardian Cities looks at how Baghdad, fragmented and impoverished by war, is fumbling towards some sort of livability.