[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about cities: trains, climate change, allergies, India, fires, Midwest map

[rfmcdonald]

• MTL Blog looks at the proposal for a sleeper train connecting Montréal and New York City. (Can Toronto get one too, please?)


• Lauren Pelley reports for CBC about how climate change leads, through increased pollen production, to worse allergies for residents of cities in Canada.


• Guardian Cities reports that the fires in Alaska, too, outside of Anchorage, are things that dwellers of cities will have to get used to.


• The heat island effect, CityLab warns, will be a major threat to life in the cities of India.


• CityLab does an interesting crowdsourced map, tracing the boundaries of the American Midwest.

Comments

[dewline]

In relation to items 3 and 4: climate derangement will affect the Hajj as well. And holy sites elsewhere across the planet, including the Harmandir Sahib (AKA "the Golden Temple") at Amritsar, one of those cities in what's now India to us anglophones. In Punjab.