[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Québec City, San Jose, Tehran, Hong Kong

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• Real estate in Hamilton, Ontario, is quite affordable by GTA standards. Global News reports.


• Québec City has a new farmer's market to replace an old. CBC reports.


• San Jose, California, is set to embark on a grand experiment in cohousing, CityLab reports.


• These vast abandoned apartment blocks in the desert outside of Tehran speak of economic underperformance, to say the least. Messynessychic has it.


• Now that Hong Kong has not just competition from other cities in China but is finding itself outmatched by the likes of Shenzhen and Shanghai, the city-state's bargaining power is accordingly limited. The SCMP reports.