LOCAL
• Winters in Vancouver can be dark [Fraseropolis]
• Surrey Building Stats from 2003 – 2011 [Civic Surrey]
• Reader Soapbox: Son of STIR: New rental policy proposed for Vancouver [Vancouver Courier]
• Controversial 22-storey Comox tower proposal going back before council next week [OpenFile]
• Metro Vancouver refugees struggle to find affordable housing [Vancouver Sun]
• Marpole looks back to its future [Vancouver Sun]
CANADA
• Canada’s oil sands means “game over” for planet, warns NASA scientist James Hansen [Vancouver Observer]
• The economics of energy conservation [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• New York, Cultural Capital of the World? Discuss [The New York Times]
• At the 20th Congress for the New Urbanism, a Movement Feels its Age [The Atlantic Cities]
• The Mother of Us All [Places: Design Observer]
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