[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New York City, Atlanta, Barcelona, Verona

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• Huffington Post Québec notes that the iconic Silo no 5 on the Montréal waterfront is now the subject of a redevelopment bid.


• Emily Raboteau writes in the NYR Daily about life in the metropolis of New York City as it faces the threats of climate change.


• CityLab remembers Lightning, the African-American neighbourhood of Atlanta displaced by the construction of the stadium where the Superbowl is now playing.


• CityLab looks at the reasons behind a surge of petty crime in Barcelona.


• Claudia Torrisi writes< at Open Democracy about the growing strength of the neo-traditionalist right in the northern Italian city of Verona.