[URBAN NOTE] Ten city links: Laval, Calgary, Vancouver, Cleveland, Machu Picchu, London, Görlitz ...

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• The Québec city of Laval now has a cemetery where pets can be buried alongside their owners. CBC reports.


• Talk of Alberta separatism has already cost Calgary at least one high-profile non-oil investment, it seems. Global News reports.


• A new piece of public art in Vancouver, a spinning chandelier, has proven to be a lightning rod for controversy. CBC reports.


• Guardian Cities looks at the continuing fight against lead contamination in Cleveland.


• Machu Picchu was built in a high remote corner of the Andes for good reasons, it is being argued. The National Post reports.


• Wired looks at how rivals to Uber are currently fighting for dominance in London, here.


• Guardian Cities shares a cartoon history of the birth of Nairobi, here.


• The east German city of Gorlitz offered interested people one month's free residence. The Guardian reports.


• JSTOR Daily notes that Hong Kong was born as a city from refugee migrations.


• Is Tokyo, despite tis size and wealth, too detached from Asia to take over from Hong Kong as a regional financial centre? Bloomberg View is not encouraging.