[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Hyder, Buenos Aires, New Orleans, Hong Kong

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• HuffPostQuebec imagines what an Expo held in Montréal for 2030 would look like, and what effect it would have on the metropolis.


• The Alaska Life notes the near-ghost town of Hyder, a community most easily accessible from Canada.


• Guardian Cities reports on a recent expulsion of street traders from a district in Buenos Aires.


• CityLab notes the growing unacceptability of a group parading in blackface in Mardi Gras in New Orleans.


• Guardian Cities explains how through, among other things, canny property investments, mass transit in Hong Kong is self-supporting financially.