LOCAL
• Pete McMartin: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is a ghetto made by outsiders (with video and map) [Vancouver Sun]
• Transit referendum won’t be until spring 2015 at the earliest [State of Vancouver]
• Big battle of political campaigns set for Surrey as Hepner, Rasode and maybe McCallum? teams gear up [State of Vancouver]
• First Look at new Timms Community Centre [South Fraser Blog]
CASCADIA
• Victoria’s iconic Empress Hotel bought by Vancouver’s Nat and Flora Bosa [Vancouver Sun]
• A crumbling town threatens B.C.’s coast, unless you ask those in charge [Globe and Mail]
• Teardowns are an unavoidable consequence of Portland’s popularity: Guest opinion [Oregon Live]
• Portland-Milwaukie light rail: TriMet seeking public input on bus changes along future Orange Line [Oregon Live]
• Getting Ready for the Orange Line [Portland Transport]
• This Weekend’s Nightmare Traffic: Why Won’t Our Leaders Build Light Rail Faster? [The Stranger]
INTERNATIONAL
• In Tel Aviv, a park for those who have nothing [Roads and Kingdoms]
• “We Have Designed Cities To Make People Ill” [Fast Co.Design]
• China’s Suicide Rate Drops as People Move to Urban Centers [City Lab]
• Can the “Playable City” Make Smart City Critics Smile? [Next City]