[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Sherbrooke, New York City, New Orleans, Nottingham, Cape Town

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• The 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie, originally planned for New Brunswick, have been taken up--provisionally--by the Québec city of Sherbrooke. HuffPostQuebec reports.


• Carmen Arroyo at Inter Press Service writes about Pedro, a migrant from Oaxaca in Mexico who has lived in new York City for a dozen years without papers.


• CityLab notes evidence that natural disasters can indeed advance gentrification, looking at the example of New Orleans.


• Guardian Cities shares some cartoons by Carol Adlam about the English city of Nottingham, neither northern nor southern.


• Civil servant magazine Apolitical takes a look at how Cape Town managed to escape its threatened water crisis.