[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Brooklyn and Queens, Calgary, El Paso, Sheffield, Nairobi

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• Curbed looks at what is happening with the proposed new streetcar route connecting Brooklyn and Queens.


• Urban farm Grow Calgary has found a new home in the southeast of that city. Global News reports.


• The claim of Donald Trump that Texas border city El Paso was a criminalized disaster spinning out of control is, of course, provably wrong. VICE has it.


• This Guardian feature shares the responses of readers to an article looking at the decline of the high street of the English city of Sheffield.


• CityLab looks at the impact of terrorism on Nairobi, at the growing presence of elements of security theatre on the street and at the targeting of ethnic Somalis in Eastleigh.