[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Niagara Falls, New York City, Winnipeg, Egyptian capital, Wuhan

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• Guardian Cities notes the utopian plan of the founder of Gillette to make Niagara Falls into a clean, hydroelectricity-fueled North American metropolis.


• Bombardier is running into problems in supplying cars for the New York City subway, something too familiar to ex-TTC chair Andy Byford, now running the MTA. CBC reports.


• The relative affordability of housing in Winnipeg, along with relatively high incomes, makes that city a contender. Global News reports.
  
• The Economist notes the expensive and questionable plan to build a new capital for Egypt in the desert east of Cairo. Is this more about ensuring the stability of the dictatorship than creating a new metropolis?


• Guardian Cities looks at how the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan tries to manage the threat of water.