[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about cities: parks, productivity, suburbs, borders, libraries

[rfmcdonald]

• CityLab looks at a new study examining the relationship between gentrification and new city parks.


• Guardian Cities looks at the hardest-working cities in the world, and wonders if that duration of work is a good idea.


• The Conversation looks at how population growth in Canada is increasingly concentrated in car-dependent suburbs.


• VICE looks at how arbitrary municipal borders in built-up areas can have nasty effects on the lives of people caught up by them.


• Rabble reports on how Canadian libraries are handling the opioid crisis.