City links: this week’s best city stories look at urban inequality from homelessness in LA to elite clubbing in Shanghai as well as roads, roofs and a sugar factory
Our roundup of the week’s best city stories addresses ways to solve homelessness, as well as "solar roads" and even pavements; we also take a look at the antics of Shanghai’s elite clubbers and learn the fate of a condemned yet much-loved factory in New York. We’d love to hear your responses to these stories and any others you’ve read recently, both at Guardian Cities and elsewhere: share your thoughts in the comments below.