[URBAN NOTE] Five links on cities: sister-cities, Brexit, farms, existentialism, trade cities

[rfmcdonald]

• JSTOR Daily notes the extent to which sister-city relationships actually do matter.


• CityLab looks at how the relationship of British cities with their sister-cities in the EU-27, their "twin towns", will be affected by Brexit.


• This article at The Conversation makes excellent points about the need for major cities to support local farm economies.


• Markus Moos at The Conversation suggests that the philosophical stance of existentialism provides useful angles for thinking about climate change in cities.


• Politico Europe hosts an article justly skeptical of the idea of setting up semi-autonomous trade cities under European supervision in Africa to hold off migrants from that continent.