[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Vaughan, Kingston, Youngstown, Washington D.C, Almaty

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• Urban Toronto notes the rising towers of the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, at the western end of Line 1.


• People in the city of Kingston are concerned by the implications of new Ontario government bills. Global News reports.


• This CityLab article takes look at the potential, actual and lost and potential, of immigration to save the declining Ohio city of Youngstown.


• Washington D.C, CityLab notes, is the latest city to be consumed by a debate over whether or not mass transit should be free.


• Guardian Cities reports on the remarkable discovery of long-hidden public art in the former Kazakhstan capital of Almaty.