[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New Orleans, Berlin, Hasankeyf, Hong Kong

[rfmcdonald]

• Why not build a public beach in the Montréal neighbourhood of Lachine? Global News considers.


• The Vietnamese cuisine of New Orleans does look good. VICE reports.


• CityLab describes an effort to build a smart city in Berlin, in Siemensstadt. I wish Berliners better outcomes than what Toronto seems to be getting in the Port Lands.


• Guardian Cities reports on what seems to me to be a terrible plan to flood the ancient settlement of Hasankeyf in Turkey for dams.


• Saša Petricic at CBC looks at how the political consensus in Hong Kong has broken down, perhaps irretrievably.