[URBAN NOTE] Five links about cities: dance, libraries, urban agriculture, density, H.P. Lovecraft

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• Guardian Cities raises an interesting possibility: Could choreographers contribute to better-designed cities?


• CityLab considers if public libraries might taken on greater civic importance as archives for public data.


• Miguel Altieri argues at The Conversation that urban agriculture can improve food security in American cities, drawing from models in Cuba and Argentina.


• The more the density of residents and infrastructures increases, studies have found, the less the impact on the natural environment. Building up is green. Global News reports.


• At CityMetric, Mark Clapham considers the city as it appears in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.