[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga, Miami, Montréal, Jakarta, Lausanne

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• Missisauga's mayor Bonnie Crombie makes the case for her city's independence from Peel Region, over at the Toronto Star.


• CityLab features a Richard Florida interview with sociologist Alejandro Portes on his new book examining the history and future of Miami.


• New maps showing flood risks are available to municipalities in the Montréal region, but for various reasons they are not using them yet. CBC reports.


• Guardian Cities reports on how the new president of Indonesia wants to move the country's capital away from megacity Jakarta to a new location on the island of Borneo.


• CityLab reports on how the Swiss city of Lausanne is making use of innovative new community consultations to decide how to manage its Place de la Riponne.