[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Ottawa, Montréal, London, Garges-lès-Gonesse, Venice

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• The Ottawa Citizen looks at the problems of the Confederation Line in the evening, here.


• CBC Montreal takes a look at a 1930s tourist brochure from Montréal. The city was represented in interesting ways.


• Wired looks at how skyscraper designs in London are being changed for the benefit of cyclists.


• Guardian Cities reports on "Ma cité va briller", the viral challenge from the Paris suburb of Garges-lès-Gonesse that inspired competition to clean up cities across the Francophone world.


• Atlas Obscura looks at how the Venetian Republic took great advantage of its expertise in cryptography in the Renaissance.