[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Saint John, Seattle, Hong Kong, Singapore, Angkor

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• A community organization in Saint John, New Brunswick, is hoping to try to save some of the many abandoned buildings in that city. Global News reports.


• Wired notes that a proposed Amazon expansion in Seattle has also been abandoned.


• Bloomberg View suggests Hong Kong is being unduly conservative in not investing its budget surpluses.


• Roads and Kingdoms tells the history of Singapore through ten local dishes.


• Ars Technica suggests the medieval city of Angkor, in Cambodia, died slowly as its complex machineries gradually ground to a halt.