[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Venice, Istanbul

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• The OS/2 operating system is used in New York City to run that metropolis subway system. VICE reports.


• The problem of homelessness in Los Angeles, the Guardian reports, is shocking.


• CityLab reports on plans for new sorts of urban forests outside famous landmarks in Paris.


• DW reports on how people in Venice protest against the intrusions of huge cruise ships into their lagoon, threatening the delicate environment.


• Guardian Cities reports on how the hipster class in Istanbul has begun to migrate to the countryside, driven out of their city by real estate prices and by politics.