Posts Tagged ‘dhaka’
[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Windsor, Calgary, Mulhouse, Naples, Dhaka
- 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.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 2, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with alberta, alsace, architecture, armenia, bangladesh, calgary, churches, cities, crime, cycling, dhaka, diaspora, france, italy, mulhouse, naples, ontario, politics, scampia, south asia, Urban Note, windsor
[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Montréal, Camden, Derry, Rome, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Dhaka & Calcutta
- La Presse notes that the Bixi bike-sharing service in Montréal is celebrating its 11th anniversary.
- Marginal Revolution notes how better policing cut into crime in Camden, New Jersey.
- The NYR Daily looks at how Brexit and a hardened border will hit the Northern Ireland city of Derry.
- Guardian Cities reports on the gang that goes around Rome at night making illegal repairs to crumbling infrastructure.
- CityLab reports on how Cape Town is coping, one year after it nearly ran out of water.
- Roads and Kingdoms shares tips for travellers visiting Hong Kong.
- Guardian Cities reports on the families made refugees by Partition who tried to swap homes in Dhaka and Calcutta.
Written by Randy McDonald
April 14, 2019 at 8:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with africa, bangladesh, bengal, borders, calcutta, camden, canada, cape town, china, cities, crime, cycling, derry, dhaka, environment, ethnic conflict, european union, hinduism, hong kong, india, ireland, islam, italy, migration, montréal, new jersey, northern ireland, québec, religion, rome, separatism, south africa, south asia, tourism, travel, united kingdom, united states, Urban Note, west bengal