LOCAL
• False Creek residents wonder: what makes a building friendly? [Vancouver Sun]
• Plea for pleaching [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Big Step for Big City Farming [The Tyee]
CANADA
• Canadian cities trying to redefine what it means to be an urban planner [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• Revolutionary Plots [Orion Magazine]
• Seattle, Washington’s Rain Wise Program: Making Managing On-Site Stormwater Easy [The Grid]
• DIY speed bumps: Traffic control for neighborhoods [The Los Angeles Times]
• How one building came to define Seattle [Crosscut]
• As freak weather becomes the norm, we need to adapt [New Scientist]
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