[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Halifax, London, Helsinki, Rustavi

[rfmcdonald]

• Some new high-rise housing developments in Hamilton are lacking in permits. Global News reports.


• Halifax is currently undergoing public consultations to see what is to be done with a statue of controversial British governor Cornwallis. Global News reports.


• Guardian Cities looks at how the ring-tailed parakeet has come to thrive in its adopted home of London.


• Guardian Cities reports on how the city of Helsinki has solved its problem with homelessness by automatically giving people in need housing.


• Open Democracy looks at the Georgian city of Rustavi, during the Soviet era dependent on a single industry like many others and left to cope with the collapse of this economy in the post-Soviet era.

Comments

[ffutures]

Re the parakeets, there really are a LOT these days - ten years ago I rarely saw them, now they're all over Kensington Gardens and I sometimes see them in the gardens behind my flat. Watch the birdie!

[rfmcdonald]

I appreciate these birds, my fellow migrants.