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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.

Kingston is experiencing a serious housing crisis, exacerbated by the return of students to such educational institutions as Queen's. Global News reports.

CBC looks at how, on the eve of the federal election, issues like cost of living are big even in relatively affordable Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

CityLab looks at controversy in Paris over the reconstruction of the Gare du Nord station, here.

Vice shares photos of Gibraltar on the eve of Brexit, here.

Guardian Cities shares photos of the wordless images advertising shops in the city of Brazzaville, here.

The Prince Edward Island National Park, unsurprisingly, was devastated by Hurricane Dorian. Global News reports.

The Mi'kmaq community of Lennox Island lost large amounts of frozen lobster after Hurricane Dorian. CBC PEI reports.

Peter Rukavina has mapped the busiest and sleeping roads on PEI, here.

Growth in ridership on Trius Transit in Charlottetown continues to outpace expectations, CBC PEI reports.

The work that the Charlottetown suburb of Cornwall is doing, diverting the Trans-Canada Highway to build a Main Street, is authentically exciting urbanism. CBC PEI reports.

MacLean's reports from the GTA suburban city of Milton, a key battleground in the federal election.

Hamilton police continues to be caught up in controversy over its handling of Pride. Global News reports.

CityLab profiles new murals being created in New York City's Harlem, on 125th street, here.

Guardian Cities considers some ambitious plans for remodeling Mexico City, with vast new neighbourhoods and airports, which never came off.

Atlas Obscura looks at a notable library of books and other documents in the Yiddish language, housed out of a decrepit bus terminal in Tel Aviv.

Ryan Anderson at anthro{dendum} looks at the unnatural history of the beach in California, here.

Architectuul looks at the architectural imaginings of Iraqi Shero Bahradar, here.

Bad Astronomy looks at gas-rich galaxy NGC 3242.

James Bow announces his new novel The Night Girl, an urban fantasy set in an alternate Toronto with an author panel discussion scheduled for the Lillian H. Smith Library on the 28th.

Centauri Dreams looks at the indirect evidence for an exomoon orbiting WASP-49b, a possible Io analogue detected through its ejected sodium.

Crooked Timber considers the plight of holders of foreign passports in the UK after Brexit.

The Crux notes that astronomers are still debating the nature of galaxy GC1052-DF2, oddly lacking in dark matter.

D-Brief notes how, in different scientific fields, the deaths of prominent scientists can help progress.

Bruce Dorminey notes how NASA and the ESA are considering sample-return missions to Ceres.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at the first test flights of the NASA Mercury program.

The Dragon's Tales looks at how Japan is considering building ASAT weapons.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at the first test flights of the NASA Mercury program.

Far Outliers looks how the anti-malarial drug quinine played a key role in allowing Europeans to survive Africa.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox considers grace and climate change.

io9 reports on how Jonathan Frakes had anxiety attacks over his return as Riker on Star Trek: Picard.

JSTOR Daily reports on the threatened banana.

Language Log looks at the language of Hong Kong protesters.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how a new version of The Last of the Mohicans perpetuates Native American erasure.

Marginal Revolution notes how East Germany remains alienated.

Neuroskeptic looks at the participant-observer effect in fMRI subjects.

The NYR Daily reports on a documentary looking at the India of Modi.

Corey S. Powell writes at Out There about Neptune.

The Planetary Society Blog examines the atmosphere of Venus, something almost literally oceanic in its nature.

Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money considers how Greenland might be incorporated into the United States.

Rocky Planet notes how Earth is unique down to the level of its component minerals.

The Russian Demographics Blog considers biopolitical conservatism in Poland and Russia.

Starts With a Bang's Ethan Siegel considers if LIGO has made a detection that might reveal the nonexistence of the theorized mass gap between neutron stars and black holes.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at Marchetti's constant: People in cities, it seems, simply do not want to commute for a time longer than half an hour.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at how the US Chemical Safety Board works.

Window on Eurasia reports on how Muslims in the Russian Far North fare.

Arnold Zwicky looks at cannons and canons.

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.

Tracey Lindeman writes at CityLab about how Montréal is trying to keep the redevelopment of the Molson-Coors Brewery site from killing the Centre-Sud.

In the Montréal neighbourhood of Park-Extension, evictions--renovictions, even--are on the rise. Global News reports.

Lac-Mégantic now has a train depot that bypasses the heart of this traumatized community. CBC Montreal reports.

Halifax is now celebrating the Mosaic Festival, celebrating its diversity. Global News reports.

Jill Croteau reports for Global News about Club Carousel, an underground club in Calgary that played a vital role in that city's LGBTQ history.

This business plan, aiming to bypass long lineups at the Edmonton outpost of the Jollibee chain, is ingenious. Global News reports.

The Iowa town of Pacific Junction, already staggering, may never recover from a recent bout of devastating flooding. VICE reports.

Avery Gregurich writes for CityLab about the Illinois town of Atlas, a crossroads seemingly on the verge of disappearing from Google Maps.

The proposal for Metropica, a new sort of suburb in Florida, certainly looks interesting. VICE reports.

Guardian Cities shares a cartoon looking affectionately at Lisbon.

Joshua Clipperton writes, here at CTV News, about how tennis like the Rogers Cup is much more popular in Montréal than in Toronto for a variety of reasons.

The CFL's Montreal Alouettes and Toronto Argonauts are set to play another exhibition game in Moncton, as Touchdown Atlantic tries to gather support for an Atlantic Canadian franchise.

Guardian Cities considers, with interviews, how Brexit might impact the town twinning that united British communities with those of wider Europe.

Guardian Cities notes how churches and other houses of worship are starting to market themselves as spaces for coworking.

I think it entirely possible that space settlements may end up evoking the company towns of Earth. Slate has it.

The flood-damaged community of Sainte-Marie, in the Beauce south of Québec City, may not recover from necessary demolitions of damaged and dangerous structures. CBC reports.

Erecting a barrier at an apparently suicide-attracting bridge like the Reversing Falls Bridge in Saint John makes perfect sense to me. Global News has it.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that, happily, voters in Phoenix have voted again in support of a light rail mass transit project.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution notes that the department of Paris has continued to lose population, contrary to the experience of growth elsewhere in other similar world cities.

CityLab makes the case for Changi Airport, in Singapore, as a world-class attraction in its own right.

Rising real estate prices in Toronto are driving similar increases in communities far from the GTA like Belleville. The Toronto Star reports.

VICE reports on how good food can lead the rehabilitation of Flint, Michigan.

Kingston will take three years to build its latest bridge. Global News reports.

Beaches like NYC's Rockaway Beach are facing pressures from climate change and from gentrification, CityLab reports.

Many of the homeless camped in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park are being rehoused, as part of a slow-moving campaign. Global News reports.

Hamilton, Ontario, leads the country in reports of hate crimes. The National Post reports.

Cyclists are 42 times as likely to be ticketed for traffic violations in Montréal than in Toronto. CTV News reports.

CBC considers if the city of Ottawa loosened unduly its requirements for its new light rail networks.

A new report suggests that economics of a central Canadian high-frequency rail route would work better if Québec City was not included. CTV reports.

CityLab looks at nostalgia in Los Angeles for that city's old comprehensive paper map, the Thomas Guide.

Peterborough is facing a serious shortage of housing. Global News reports.

In Kingston, the restoration of the Bellevue House that was home to John A MacDonald continues. Global News reports.

The federal government will provide funding for the new streetcar route in Québec City. CTV News reports.

Will the Detroit television documentary series filmed by Anthony Bourdain see a release? One hopes.

Richmond, a Vancouver suburb home for decades to a substantial diaspora from Hong Kong, is deeply affected by the ongoing protests there. The Toronto Star reports.

Tensions between the LGBTQ communities of Hamilton and the police remain high. Global News reports.

The federal government will be providing funding for the new Great West Park of Montréal. CTV News reports.

CityLab looks at the hometown of Toni Morrison, the Ohio community of Lorain, here.

Guardian Cities looks at the question of how, or whether, a Buenos Aires slum should become an official neighbourhood, here.

Guardian Cities reports on a small neighbourhood, Cosmo Park, built on top of a shopping mall in Jakarta, here.

Real estate in Hamilton, Ontario, is quite affordable by GTA standards. Global News reports.

Québec City has a new farmer's market to replace an old. CBC reports.

San Jose, California, is set to embark on a grand experiment in cohousing, CityLab reports.

These vast abandoned apartment blocks in the desert outside of Tehran speak of economic underperformance, to say the least. Messynessychic has it.

Now that Hong Kong has not just competition from other cities in China but is finding itself outmatched by the likes of Shenzhen and Shanghai, the city-state's bargaining power is accordingly limited. The SCMP reports.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at Abell 30, a star that has been reborn in the long process of dying.

Centauri Dreams uses the impending launch of LightSail 2 to discuss solar sails in science fiction.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber, as part of a series of the fragility of globalization, considers if migration flows can be reversed. (He concludes it unlikely.)

The Crux considers if the record rain in the Midwest (Ontario, too, I would add) is a consequence of climate change.

D-Brief notes that the failure of people around the world to eat enough fruits and vegetables may be responsible for millions of premature dead.

Dangerous Minds introduces readers to gender-bending Italian music superstar Renato Zero.

Dead Things notes how genetic examinations have revealed the antiquity of many grapevines still used for wine.

Gizmodo notes that the ocean beneath the icy crust of Europa may contain simple salt.

io9 tries to determine the nature of the many twisted timelines of the X-Men movie universe of Fox.

JSTOR Daily observes that the Stonewall Riots were hardly the beginning of the gay rights movement in the US.

Language Log looks at the mixed scripts on a bookstore sign in Beijing.

Dave Brockington at Lawyers, Guns, and Money argues that Jeremy Corbyn has a very strong hold on his loyal followers, perhaps even to the point of irrationality.

Marginal Revolution observes that people who create public genetic profiles for themselves also undo privacy for their entire biological family.

Sean Marshall at Marshall's Musings shares a photo of a very high-numbered street address, 986039 Oxford-Perth Road in Punkeydoodle's Corners.

The NYR Daily examines the origins of the wealth of Lehman Brothers in the exploitation of slavery.

The Planetary Society Blog shares a panorama-style photo of the Apollo 11 Little West Crater on the Moon.

Drew Rowsome notes that classic documentary Paris Is Burning has gotten a makeover and is now playing at TIFF.

Peter Rukavina, writing from a trip to Halifax, notes the convenience of the Eduroam procedures allowing users of one Maritime university computer network to log onto another member university's network.

Dylan Reid at Spacing considers how municipal self-government might be best embedded in the constitution of Canada.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle pays tribute to the wildflower Speedwell, a name he remembers from Watership Down.

Strange Maps shares a crowdsourced map depicting which areas of Europe are best (and worst) for hitchhikers.

Window on Eurasia notes the distribution of native speakers of Russian, with Israel emerging as more Russophone than some post-Soviet states.

The city of Fredericton hopes a new strategy to attracting international migration to the New Brunswick capital will help its grow its population by 25 thousand. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities notes the controversy in Amsterdam as users of moped find themselves being pushed from using bike lanes.

Guardian Cities looks at how many in Athens think the city might do well to unbury the rivers covered under concrete and construction in the second half of the 20th century.

The Sagrada Familia, after more than 130 years of construction, has finally received a permit for construction from Barcelona city authorities. Global News reports.

Evan Gershkovich at the Moscow Times reports on how the recent ousting of the mayor of the Latvian capital of Riga for corruption is also seem through a lens of ethnic conflict.

The Conversation notes how Canadian cities need new revenue sources as their economies evolve.

Can Canada learn from a New Jersey trying to move homes and residents out of flood-prone areas? CBC reports.

CityLab looks at how St. Louis is finally removing the artificial concrete barriers blocking its streets and neighbourhoods.
The controversial "new towns" of the United Kingdom are the subject of this Guardian Cities feature.

Bloomberg looks at how second-tier cities in China like Wuhan are also competing for white-collar migrants.

JSTOR Daily looks at how urban architecture can be made to work better.

CityLab looks at the extent to which Millennials in North America really do like cities, and why.

CityLab examines the various reasons why Americans have become less mobile than many before, from a love for their community to note being able to move.

This Guardian Cities article looking at how British cities have become dependent on alcohol sales and nightclubbing, despite the social toll, is disturbing.

Justin Fox at Bloomberg looks at how cities like Buffalo and Pittsburgh can thrive despite losing population.

This Shane Mitchell op-ed at Spacing warns about how plans for a new hospital in Windsor can threaten to promote sprawl.

Debates over bike traffic laws are ongoing in Calgary. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities looks at how the downtown of the French city of Mulhouse has been successfully regenerated.

Guardian Cities looks at how the infamous housing estate of Scampia outside of Naples, famously derelict and a nexus for crime, is finally being torn down.

Atlas Obscura notes an Armenian church in Dhaka, last remnant of a once-vast Armenian trading diaspora that extended out to Bengal.

Kingston, Ontario, is currently doing its best to cope with flood risk from the rising Lake Ontario. Global News reports.

MacLean's reports on an appalling expansion of the iconic Chateau Laurier in Ottawa.

CityLab reports on how Amsterdam is trying to avoid being overwhelmed by tourism.

Guardian Cities reports on how the new government in Madrid plans to scrap a low-emissions zone because of a belief that congestion is a Madrid tradition.

Roads and Kingdoms shares some tips for visitors to Yerevan.

Increasing the housing supply will not necessarily decrease inequality. CityLab reports.

American cities need more public spaces, for the health and well-being of all. The Atlantic reports.

Having large populations of educated Millennials is a good problem for cities. Bloomberg reports.

Atlas Obscura profiles some cool systems of mass transit from around the world.

CityLab observes how beauty in a city can boost its growth.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Ottawa, Montréal, London, Garges-lès-Gonesse, Venice
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[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about cities: trains, climate change, allergies, India, fires, Midwest map

[URBAN NOTE] Ten city links: Montréal, Lac-Mégantic, Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton ...

[URBAN NOTE] Five links about cities: tennis, CFL, twin towns, coworking, space company towns

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