LOCAL
• Vancouver bike lanes draw unnecessary lines [Vancouver Courier]
• Are pedestrian issues too pedestrian for Vancouver’s bicycle-automobile wars? [Vancouver Observer]
• Does B.C.’s hydro-rate-hike decision affect future of system? [Globe and Mail]
• Former city councillor: Vancouver’s bike sharing program will fail [OpenFile]
• Removing the viaducts: Possibility or inevitability? [OpenFile]
• TransLink, hit by falling revenues from gas tax, plans to sell properties to help pay for operating costs [State of Vancouver]
• The challenge of East Clayton [BC Local News]
CANADA
• A Timeline of Storefronts [The Atlantic Cities]
INTERNATIONAL
• Military planners want to make bases worldwide more walkable [USA Today]
• After a lull, San Francisco’s set to increase housing construction [City Insider]
• G8 summit might have actually done something about climate change [Grist]
• New Urbanism’s Pivot Point [StreetSense]
• Big Data and a Brave New World [Huffington Post]
• Instead of Lamenting the Urban Heat Island Effect, Why Don’t We Harness It? [The Atlantic Cities]
• Plan to create major park moves ahead [Crosscut]
• Urban street lights are changing animal ecology [New Scientist]
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