[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga, St. Catharines, Montréal, Milwaukee, Boonsboro

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• The City of Mississauga hopes to secede from Peel Region, becoming an independent city like Toronto. Global News reports.


• Urban Toronto notes the remarkable scope of a plan in St. Catharines to build a vast new mixed-use development on neglected lands.


• Plans to build a new beach for an east-end Montréal neighbourhood have been put into motion. CBC reports.


• CityLab reports on the success of self-described socialists in Milwaukee civic elections.


• This Jezebel article reveals the remarkably prominent role Nora Roberts has taken on in Boonsboro, Maryland, a small town substantially sustained by her investments and that bears her mark.