LOCAL
• Social activist and former Vancouver councillor Jim Green dies [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver residents rise up with Rize development plan [Vancouver Courier]
• Critics, admirers unite in praise of Jim Green [Globe and Mail]
• City approves motion to create a new arts and culture advisory committee [OpenFile]
• New Westminster wants tolls on Pattullo Bridge [Vancouver Sun]
• Number of homeless women up in Metro Vancouver [Vancouver Sun]
INTERNATIONAL
• The Creative Community: How Three Communities Used Art to Build a Future [EngagingCities]
• Making Sustainability Legal: 9 Zombie Laws That Keep Cities From Going Green [AlterNet]
• Dream Home for the New Era: Compact, connected & mortgage-free? [PlaceShakers]
• ‘Storm of the Century’ May Become ‘Storm of the Decade’ [ScienceDaily]
• How More Expensive Housing Can Actually Cost You Less [The Atlantic Cities]
• Storefront mushroom farm opens in Pioneer Square [Crosscut]
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