[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New York City, Atlanta, Barcelona, Copenhagen

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• Montréal may yet get a new park to commemorate victims of the Irish famine of the 1840s. CTV reports.


• CityLab reports on the new spectacular Hudson Yards development in Manhattan.


• The nightclubs of Atlanta in the 1990s played a critical role in that decade's hip-hop. VICE reports.


• CityLab reports that, dealing with a housing crisis, city authorities in Barcelona have taken to finding the owners of empty buildings.


• Guardian Cities reports on how civic authorities in Copenhagen hope to create an offshore archipelago, a sort of floating Silicon Valley.