[URBAN NOTE] Ten city links: Hamilton, Ottawa, Montréal, Kingston, Vancouver, Toledo, NYC, Bodie …

• CBC Hamilton reports on the options of the City of Hamilton faced with its having hired a prominent former white supremacist.
• CBC Ottawa reports that flood levels on the Ottawa River have reached record highs.
• The Montreal Gazette considers possible solutions to crowding on the Montréal subway, including new cars and special buses.
• Kingston is preparing for flooding, the city seeing a threat only in certain waterfront districts. Global News reports.
• Vancouver is applying a zoning freeze in a future mass transit corridor. Global News reports.
• CityLab looks at how the post-war dream of mass transit and densification for the Ohio city of Toledo never came about, and how it might now.
• Guardian Cities looks at construction proposals for New York City that never were.
• CityLab looks at how the California ghost town of Bodie is kept in good shape for tourists.
• Vox notes that just over one in ten thousand people in San Francisco is a billionaire.
• Leonid Bershidsky at Bloomberg considers why productivity in Berlin lags behind that in other European capital cities. Could it be that the young workers of Berlin are not devoted to earning income?