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rfmcdonald ([personal profile] rfmcdonald) wrote2019-01-17 05:33 pm

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Québec City, Atlantic City, Wood Buffalo, London, Copenhagen


  • CityLab looks at the fight to resist the low-density urban sprawl of Québec City into surrounding farmland at Beauport.

  • CityLab looks at the vanished history of African-American tourism in Atlantic City.

  • The population of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northern Alberta, around Fort McMurray, has fallen by 11% in the past few years. Global News reports.

  • Guardian Cities looks at how placemaking, the creation of innovation clusters attracting attention, is undermining social housing in London.

  • CityLab looks at the challenges faced by Copenhagen, with a questionable model of urban redevelopment set to climax in the production of artificial islands.