[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Raccoon City, Hamilton, Chicago, Milwaukee, Paris

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• Mark Clapham at CityMetric takes an insightful look at the terrifying, dehumanizing, ways in which the fictional Raccoon City was designed.


• Alex Bozikovic writes in The Globe and Mail about the goals of the new chief planner of Hamilton, Jason Thorne, to help grow a dynamic and livable city.


• Guardian Cities looks at how many of the major streets of Chicago trace their ancestry to the trails of indigenous peoples.


• WUWM notes how Milwaukee has the largest concentration of Rohingya refugees in the United States.


• Mira Kamdar at the NYR Daily looks at the agricultural past--and potential future--of the Paris periphery, particularly but not only Seine-Saint-Denis.